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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... happy thing , when itself is well contained within the true band of unity . The quarrels and * In allusion to the song of Simeon , Luke ii , 29 . | OF GOODNESS , AND GOODNESS OF NATURE . thou 10 THE ENGLISH ESSAYISTS . Of toleration, Of ...
... happy thing , when itself is well contained within the true band of unity . The quarrels and * In allusion to the song of Simeon , Luke ii , 29 . | OF GOODNESS , AND GOODNESS OF NATURE . thou 10 THE ENGLISH ESSAYISTS . Of toleration, Of ...
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... happy men , whose natures sort with their vocations ; otherwise they may say , " Multum incola fuit anima mea : " when they converse in those things they do not affect . In studies , whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself , let him ...
... happy men , whose natures sort with their vocations ; otherwise they may say , " Multum incola fuit anima mea : " when they converse in those things they do not affect . In studies , whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself , let him ...
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... happy for a few hours , as I had died the first hour I was born . [ " Few have spent more time over his ( Bacon's ) writings than I have , and nobody can have esti- mated him more highly as a philosopher . In intellect I always thought ...
... happy for a few hours , as I had died the first hour I was born . [ " Few have spent more time over his ( Bacon's ) writings than I have , and nobody can have esti- mated him more highly as a philosopher . In intellect I always thought ...
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... happy as nature , who , whatso- ever they read or pen , they can say without book presently , as if they did then write in their mind . And it is more a wonder in such as have a swift style , for their memories are commonly slowest ...
... happy as nature , who , whatso- ever they read or pen , they can say without book presently , as if they did then write in their mind . And it is more a wonder in such as have a swift style , for their memories are commonly slowest ...
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... happy thing not to be compelled ; but so it is the most miserable not to be counselled . And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the best counsellors ( which are books ) ; for they neither flatter us , nor hide from us ? He ...
... happy thing not to be compelled ; but so it is the most miserable not to be counselled . And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the best counsellors ( which are books ) ; for they neither flatter us , nor hide from us ? He ...
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