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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... 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 word I mean is good ...
... 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 word I mean is good ...
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... perhaps when he has terminated his course of believing everything , in ultimately be- lieving nothing . Even then , unless he is very old , or feels more pride in being a skeptic , the conqueror of all systems , than he ever felt in ...
... perhaps when he has terminated his course of believing everything , in ultimately be- lieving nothing . Even then , unless he is very old , or feels more pride in being a skeptic , the conqueror of all systems , than he ever felt in ...
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... perhaps transmute a soul that seemed to be of the stern consistence of the early Roman repub- lic , into the gentlest wax on which Corruption could wish to im- print the venerable creed , " The right divine of kings to govern wrong ...
... perhaps transmute a soul that seemed to be of the stern consistence of the early Roman repub- lic , into the gentlest wax on which Corruption could wish to im- print the venerable creed , " The right divine of kings to govern wrong ...
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... The dissimilarity in mind between the two extremes , the youth of seventeen and the sage of seventy , might perhaps be little less than that in countenance ; and as the one of these contrasts might be contemplated by an old 1758 JOHN ...
... The dissimilarity in mind between the two extremes , the youth of seventeen and the sage of seventy , might perhaps be little less than that in countenance ; and as the one of these contrasts might be contemplated by an old 1758 JOHN ...
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... perhaps true that like - a much greater thinker - Auguste Comte he was at times wholly in- capable of controlling the operations of his own mind , but when he is at his best his writings display phenomenal force and considerable ...
... perhaps true that like - a much greater thinker - Auguste Comte he was at times wholly in- capable 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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