The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... perhaps , too , by the inevitable influences of a semi - patrician birth and the conditions of office ; and so he retreated ever more and more towards the old age , and never , even in his most daring flights , crossed the limits of a ...
... perhaps , too , by the inevitable influences of a semi - patrician birth and the conditions of office ; and so he retreated ever more and more towards the old age , and never , even in his most daring flights , crossed the limits of a ...
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... perhaps , of her temptation in the Passion week . While saying , as she at times would say , " These English will kill me , " she in reality did not think so . She did not imagine . that she could ever be deserted . She had faith in her ...
... perhaps , of her temptation in the Passion week . While saying , as she at times would say , " These English will kill me , " she in reality did not think so . She did not imagine . that she could ever be deserted . She had faith in her ...
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... perhaps low prayers , humiliating cries for mercy , such as proceed from a woman in despair . The frightful ceremony began with a sermon . Master Nicolas Midy , one of the lights of the University of Paris , preached upon the edifying ...
... perhaps low prayers , humiliating cries for mercy , such as proceed from a woman in despair . The frightful ceremony began with a sermon . Master Nicolas Midy , one of the lights of the University of Paris , preached upon the edifying ...
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... perhaps his masterpiece , ap- peared in 1859. He wrote also " On the Subjection of Women , " Auguste Comte and Positivism , " " England and Ireland , » « On the Irish Land Question , " and on allied topics of philosophy and political ...
... perhaps his masterpiece , ap- peared in 1859. He wrote also " On the Subjection of Women , " Auguste Comte and Positivism , " " England and Ireland , » « On the Irish Land Question , " and on allied topics of philosophy and political ...
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... perhaps did not desire , to contest , whatever precau- tions might be taken against its oppressive exercise . Their power was regarded as necessary , but also as highly dangerous ; as a weapon which they would attempt to use against ...
... perhaps did not desire , to contest , whatever precau- tions might be taken against its oppressive exercise . Their power was regarded as necessary , but also as highly dangerous ; as a weapon which they would attempt to use against ...
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Página 2905 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 2879 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 2880 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 2914 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Página 3209 - Mole in, Their thunder rolling From the Vatican, And cymbals glorious. Swinging uproarious In the gorgeous turrets Of Notre Dame; But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o'er the Tiber, Pealing solemnly.
Página 2909 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 3207 - And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Página 2906 - ... renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron.
Página 2904 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Página 3235 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.