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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... once vented , like a stone cast into a pond , begets circle upon circle , till it meets with the bank that bounds it : yet fame often plays the cur , and opens when she springs no game . Why should I positively condemn any man , whom I ...
... once vented , like a stone cast into a pond , begets circle upon circle , till it meets with the bank that bounds it : yet fame often plays the cur , and opens when she springs no game . Why should I positively condemn any man , whom I ...
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... once . I will not be too ready to believe the reports of others , nor will I censure any man whom I know not internally , but with sparingness and caution . Complete . From « Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political . » A $ THAT A WISE ...
... once . I will not be too ready to believe the reports of others , nor will I censure any man whom I know not internally , but with sparingness and caution . Complete . From « Resolves , Divine , Moral , and Political . » A $ THAT A WISE ...
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... once . He that fixes upon her shall find a beauty which will every day take him with some new grace or other . I like that love which , by a soft ascension , by degrees possesses itself of the soul . As for an enemy who is long a ...
... once . He that fixes upon her shall find a beauty which will every day take him with some new grace or other . I like that love which , by a soft ascension , by degrees possesses itself of the soul . As for an enemy who is long a ...
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... once seized the opportunity to give them a severe reprimand , that they would flock around him and attend with eagerness to a mere trifle , while they would not for a moment listen to things of the greatest consequence . He expressed ...
... once seized the opportunity to give them a severe reprimand , that they would flock around him and attend with eagerness to a mere trifle , while they would not for a moment listen to things of the greatest consequence . He expressed ...
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... once taken prisoner by the Macedonians , near Chæronea , and being brought to Philip , he asked him what he was : " I am , " he replied , " the witness of your insatiable greed . " The king was so pleased with this answer that he gave ...
... once taken prisoner by the Macedonians , near Chæronea , and being brought to Philip , he asked him what he was : " I am , " he replied , " the witness of your insatiable greed . " The king was so pleased with this answer that he gave ...
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