The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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Página 1664
... less suited to be at the head of a sober Puritan household . There are strong grounds for the belief that she treated him shamefully - far more shamefully than is usually suspected . And though , in his consummate mag- nanimity , he ...
... less suited to be at the head of a sober Puritan household . There are strong grounds for the belief that she treated him shamefully - far more shamefully than is usually suspected . And though , in his consummate mag- nanimity , he ...
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... less and avail more . What jealous and envious furies gnaw the burning breast of the ambitious fool ! What fears and cares affright the starting sleeps of the covetous ! If anything happen to warrant them , it crushes him ten times more ...
... less and avail more . What jealous and envious furies gnaw the burning breast of the ambitious fool ! What fears and cares affright the starting sleeps of the covetous ! If anything happen to warrant them , it crushes him ten times more ...
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... less expected . Those joys clasp us with a friendlier arm which steal upon us when we look not for them . If it fall out ill , my mind not being set on it will teach me pa- tience under the saddening want . I will cozen pain by not car ...
... less expected . Those joys clasp us with a friendlier arm which steal upon us when we look not for them . If it fall out ill , my mind not being set on it will teach me pa- tience under the saddening want . I will cozen pain by not car ...
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... less unwise , who is unwise in prose . If the subject be history , or contexted fable , then I hold it better to put it in prose , or blank verse ; for ordinary discourse never shows so well in metre , as in the strain it may seem to be ...
... less unwise , who is unwise in prose . If the subject be history , or contexted fable , then I hold it better to put it in prose , or blank verse ; for ordinary discourse never shows so well in metre , as in the strain it may seem to be ...
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... less dangerous than any other , yet it is far from availing , to the pro- fit of a voyage , and the passengers may sooner famish , by being becalmed , than coast it over , for the advantage of their mart . Surely the man who is always ...
... less dangerous than any other , yet it is far from availing , to the pro- fit of a voyage , and the passengers may sooner famish , by being becalmed , than coast it over , for the advantage of their mart . Surely the man who is always ...
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