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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... sense , rather than a syllogism ; his own , rather than another's . He who is continually quoting from others argues a barrenness in himself which forces him to be ever a - bor- rowing ; in the one , a man shows judgment ; in the other ...
... sense , rather than a syllogism ; his own , rather than another's . He who is continually quoting from others argues a barrenness in himself which forces him to be ever a - bor- rowing ; in the one , a man shows judgment ; in the other ...
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... senses and corrupted reason ; otherwise , he will waver in his ways and ever be in a doubtful unsettledness . If he takes policy , that is both endless and uncertain , and often- times depends more upon circumstances than upon the main ...
... senses and corrupted reason ; otherwise , he will waver in his ways and ever be in a doubtful unsettledness . If he takes policy , that is both endless and uncertain , and often- times depends more upon circumstances than upon the main ...
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... senses and the understanding . I love not those cart - rope speeches , which are longer than the memory of man can fathom . I see not but that divinity , put into apt significants , might ravish as well as poetry . They are sermons ...
... senses and the understanding . I love not those cart - rope speeches , which are longer than the memory of man can fathom . I see not but that divinity , put into apt significants , might ravish as well as poetry . They are sermons ...
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... sense , which illustrates by some allusion . How po- · litical is Moses in his Pentateuch ! How philosophical Job ! How massy and sententious is Solomon in his Proverbs ! How grave and solemn in his Ecclesiastes ; that in the world ...
... sense , which illustrates by some allusion . How po- · litical is Moses in his Pentateuch ! How philosophical Job ! How massy and sententious is Solomon in his Proverbs ! How grave and solemn in his Ecclesiastes ; that in the world ...
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... senses . Neither could chance make so mar- velous a book : even all the art of man is too imperfect ever to reach so high a perfection , therefore what hand had the skill to compose it ? The second wonder I find in my brain is to see ...
... senses . Neither could chance make so mar- velous a book : even all the art of man is too imperfect ever to reach so high a perfection , therefore what hand had the skill to compose it ? The second wonder I find in my brain is to see ...
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