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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... passions are the winds which make him swell and foam ; sometimes the west of pleasure fans him with luxurious gales ; sometimes the moist south makes him sorrowful and full of tears ; some- times the sharp east pierces him with a testy ...
... passions are the winds which make him swell and foam ; sometimes the west of pleasure fans him with luxurious gales ; sometimes the moist south makes him sorrowful and full of tears ; some- times the sharp east pierces him with a testy ...
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... passions hurry him into an odi- ous violence , nor when they are all laid asleep in a silent and unstirring calm . The sea is best in a pleasant gale ; and so is man , when his passions are alive without raging . God implanted passions ...
... passions hurry him into an odi- ous violence , nor when they are all laid asleep in a silent and unstirring calm . The sea is best in a pleasant gale ; and so is man , when his passions are alive without raging . God implanted passions ...
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... passions and af- fections , outward occasions might exercise our virtues , but could not injure them . There is a way to be wise and good , in spite of occasions . We cannot be drawn into evil courses , if we help not ourselves forward ...
... passions and af- fections , outward occasions might exercise our virtues , but could not injure them . There is a way to be wise and good , in spite of occasions . We cannot be drawn into evil courses , if we help not ourselves forward ...
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... passions . are He was one day asked where he chose to be buried after his death . " In an open field , " he replied . " How ! " said one ; « < you not afraid of becoming food for birds of prey and wild beasts ? » " Then I must have my ...
... passions . are He was one day asked where he chose to be buried after his death . " In an open field , " he replied . " How ! " said one ; « < you not afraid of becoming food for birds of prey and wild beasts ? » " Then I must have my ...
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... passion , avo- cations , and caprices , which over - rule all their other less clear judgments . It is through her that men , as depraved as they are , have not yet presumed openly to bestow on vice the name of virtue , and that they ...
... passion , avo- cations , and caprices , which over - rule all their other less clear judgments . It is through her that men , as depraved as they are , have not yet presumed openly to bestow on vice the name of virtue , and that they ...
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