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 , of distempered brains ! For if they have not judgment enough to amend their conversation , they may well want judgment to choose the worthiest authors . I grant they may know much ; and I think any man may do so who hath but ...
... perhaps , of distempered brains ! For if they have not judgment enough to amend their conversation , they may well want judgment to choose the worthiest authors . I grant they may know much ; and I think any man may do so who hath but ...
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... perhaps , not any of these . The soul is often led by secret motions and attachments , she knows not why . There are impulsive instincts , which urge us to a liking ; as if there were some hidden beauty of a more magnetic force than ...
... perhaps , not any of these . The soul is often led by secret motions and attachments , she knows not why . There are impulsive instincts , which urge us to a liking ; as if there were some hidden beauty of a more magnetic force than ...
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... perhaps it may be asked , Will Seneca or Plutarch make us laugh ? Perhaps not ; but if you are not a fool , my worthy friend , which I can hardly with civility suspect , they will both ( the latter especially ) please you more than if ...
... perhaps it may be asked , Will Seneca or Plutarch make us laugh ? Perhaps not ; but if you are not a fool , my worthy friend , which I can hardly with civility suspect , they will both ( the latter especially ) please you more than if ...
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... perhaps it is that so few have ever possessed this talent in any eminent degree . Neither of these will alone bestow it ; nothing is indeed more common than to see men of very bright imaginations , and of very accu- rate learning ...
... perhaps it is that so few have ever possessed this talent in any eminent degree . Neither of these will alone bestow it ; nothing is indeed more common than to see men of very bright imaginations , and of very accu- rate learning ...
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... perhaps yet worse ) to an improper education . I shall probably , therefore , in a future paper , endeavor to lay down some rules by which all men may acquire at least some degree of taste . In the meanwhile , I shall ( according to the ...
... perhaps yet worse ) to an improper education . I shall probably , therefore , in a future paper , endeavor to lay down some rules by which all men may acquire at least some degree of taste . In the meanwhile , I shall ( according to the ...
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