The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5 |
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Página 1730
... the nearest to it , and by which , perhaps , we would sometimes intend it , being
so horribly and barbarously corrupted , that it contains at present scarce a simple
ingredient of what it seems originally to have been designed to express .
... the nearest to it , and by which , perhaps , we would sometimes intend it , being
so horribly and barbarously corrupted , that it contains at present scarce a simple
ingredient of what it seems originally to have been designed to express .
Página 1756
... and eagerly ask what is to be the next ; for you never deem the present state of
such a man ' s views to be for permanence , unless perhaps when he has
terminated his course of believing everything , in ultimately believing nothing .
... and eagerly ask what is to be the next ; for you never deem the present state of
such a man ' s views to be for permanence , unless perhaps when he has
terminated his course of believing everything , in ultimately believing nothing .
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... great , could perhaps transmute a soul that seemed to be of the stern
consistence of the early Roman republic , into the gentlest wax on which
Corruption could wish to imprint the venerable creed , “ The right divine of kings
to govern wrong ...
... great , could perhaps transmute a soul that seemed to be of the stern
consistence of the early Roman republic , into the gentlest wax on which
Corruption could wish to imprint the venerable creed , “ The right divine of kings
to govern wrong ...
Página 1758
... would oppose and probably despise one another , and soon separate , not
caring if they were never to meet again . The dissimilarity in mind between the
two extremes , the youth of seventeen and the sage of seventy , might perhaps be
little ...
... would oppose and probably despise one another , and soon separate , not
caring if they were never to meet again . The dissimilarity in mind between the
two extremes , the youth of seventeen and the sage of seventy , might perhaps be
little ...
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It is perhaps true that like a much greater thinker — Auguste Comte — he was at
times wholly incapable of controlling the operations of his own mind , but when
he is at his best his writings display phenomenal force and considerable ...
It is perhaps true that like a much greater thinker — Auguste Comte — he was at
times wholly incapable of controlling the operations of his own mind , but when
he is at his best his writings display phenomenal force and considerable ...
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