The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... ground of truth , a hill not to be commanded , and where the air is always clear and serene : and to see the errors , and wanderings , and mists , and tempests , in the vale below " so always , that this prospect before death is no such ...
... ground of truth , a hill not to be commanded , and where the air is always clear and serene : and to see the errors , and wanderings , and mists , and tempests , in the vale below " so always , that this prospect before death is no such ...
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... ground , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or ...
... ground , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or ...
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... ground , where it must first fill a pool . It is indifferent for judges and magis- trates for if they be facile and corrupt , you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife . For soldiers , I find the generals commonly , in their ...
... ground , where it must first fill a pool . It is indifferent for judges and magis- trates for if they be facile and corrupt , you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife . For soldiers , I find the generals commonly , in their ...
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... ground than upon a flat . And for the same reason , those * Tamerlane or Timour , Emperor of Samarcand , who died in the seventieth year of his age , A.D. 1405 , when preparing for the invasion of China . that are advanced by degrees ...
... ground than upon a flat . And for the same reason , those * Tamerlane or Timour , Emperor of Samarcand , who died in the seventieth year of his age , A.D. 1405 , when preparing for the invasion of China . that are advanced by degrees ...
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... ground too fast . There is nothing makes a man suspect much , more than to know little : and therefore men should remedy sus- picion , by procuring to know more , and not to keep their suspicions in smother . What would men have ? Do ...
... ground too fast . There is nothing makes a man suspect much , more than to know little : and therefore men should remedy sus- picion , by procuring to know more , and not to keep their suspicions in smother . What would men have ? Do ...
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