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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... true , wit is in general readier at such productions than at any other ; yet , the best are never obscene . Vicious or vulgar is his character , at best , who deals in licentious thoughts and expressions . Decency is the cor- rective of ...
... true , wit is in general readier at such productions than at any other ; yet , the best are never obscene . Vicious or vulgar is his character , at best , who deals in licentious thoughts and expressions . Decency is the cor- rective of ...
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... true syllogism : -O pueriles ineptias ! in hoc supercilia subduximus ? in hoc barbam dimisimus ? Dispu- tationes istæ , utinam tantum non prodessent ; nocent . O most child- ish follies ! is it for these we knit our brows , and stroke ...
... true syllogism : -O pueriles ineptias ! in hoc supercilia subduximus ? in hoc barbam dimisimus ? Dispu- tationes istæ , utinam tantum non prodessent ; nocent . O most child- ish follies ! is it for these we knit our brows , and stroke ...
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... true there is sometimes a self - constancy which is not to be tempted . In Athens there may be one Phocion to refuse the gold of Harpalus and Alexander ; but this indeed is rare , and worthy of being magnified . Nil magnum in rebus hu ...
... true there is sometimes a self - constancy which is not to be tempted . In Athens there may be one Phocion to refuse the gold of Harpalus and Alexander ; but this indeed is rare , and worthy of being magnified . Nil magnum in rebus hu ...
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... true , " said Diogenes , " that the time was when I was what you are now ; but the time will never come that you will be what I am now . " Aristippus fell in with him one day when he was washing his herbs . " Diogenes , " said he to him ...
... true , " said Diogenes , " that the time was when I was what you are now ; but the time will never come that you will be what I am now . " Aristippus fell in with him one day when he was washing his herbs . " Diogenes , " said he to him ...
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... true friends are wanted , for Di- ogenes knew that Antisthenes bore his distress with impatience . He went to him at another time with a poniard under his cloak . " Ah ! " said Antisthenes to him on this occasion , " ah ! what will ...
... true friends are wanted , for Di- ogenes knew that Antisthenes bore his distress with impatience . He went to him at another time with a poniard under his cloak . " Ah ! " said Antisthenes to him on this occasion , " ah ! what will ...
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