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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... object of existence . He died at Wot- ton , February 27th , 1706 . THE IN AND AROUND NAPLES HE next day , being Saturday , we went four miles out of town on mules , to see that famous volcano , Mount Vesuvius . Here we pass a fair ...
... object of existence . He died at Wot- ton , February 27th , 1706 . THE IN AND AROUND NAPLES HE next day , being Saturday , we went four miles out of town on mules , to see that famous volcano , Mount Vesuvius . Here we pass a fair ...
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... object to bound it , it runs on ad infinitum and cannot be checked by any condition of life . Let the coward have a guard , and he fears that ; let him have none , and he will be fearful for want of it . I have known some who ought to ...
... object to bound it , it runs on ad infinitum and cannot be checked by any condition of life . Let the coward have a guard , and he fears that ; let him have none , and he will be fearful for want of it . I have known some who ought to ...
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... object is to amass money . Plato was one day entertaining some friends of Dionysius the tyrant . Diogenes entering , fell upon his knees on a beautiful carpet with which the floor was covered : " I kneel , " said he , " to the pride of ...
... object is to amass money . Plato was one day entertaining some friends of Dionysius the tyrant . Diogenes entering , fell upon his knees on a beautiful carpet with which the floor was covered : " I kneel , " said he , " to the pride of ...
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... object of their ridicule . " What matters it ? " he replied ; " sup- pose they do ; and so asses , when they show their teeth and grin , and seem to laugh , probably intend to ridicule them . " " But , " it was rejoined , " they give ...
... object of their ridicule . " What matters it ? " he replied ; " sup- pose they do ; and so asses , when they show their teeth and grin , and seem to laugh , probably intend to ridicule them . " " But , " it was rejoined , " they give ...
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... objects that surround it . It is alto- gether ignorant of itself , and gropes about in an abyss of dark- ness . It neither knows what it is , nor how it is united with a body ; nor which way it has so much command over all the springs ...
... objects that surround it . It is alto- gether ignorant of itself , and gropes about in an abyss of dark- ness . It neither knows what it is , nor how it is united with a body ; nor which way it has so much command over all the springs ...
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