The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 páginas |
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... look sometimes into a glass , and presently forget their own shape and favour . ' As for business , a man may think ... look into their own estate . Some forbear it , not upon negligence alone , but doubting to bring them- selves into ...
... look sometimes into a glass , and presently forget their own shape and favour . ' As for business , a man may think ... look into their own estate . Some forbear it , not upon negligence alone , but doubting to bring them- selves into ...
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... look upon men and matters with an evil eye , and are best pleased when things go backward ; which is the worst property in a ser- vant of a prince or state . Therefore it is good for princes , if they use ambitious men , to handle it so ...
... look upon men and matters with an evil eye , and are best pleased when things go backward ; which is the worst property in a ser- vant of a prince or state . Therefore it is good for princes , if they use ambitious men , to handle it so ...
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... look for . In all negotiations of difficulty , a man may not look to sow and reap at once ; but must prepare business , and so ripen it by degrees . VOF STUDIES . Studies serve for delight , for ornament , and for ability . Their chief ...
... look for . In all negotiations of difficulty , a man may not look to sow and reap at once ; but must prepare business , and so ripen it by degrees . VOF STUDIES . Studies serve for delight , for ornament , and for ability . Their chief ...
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... look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is worse which proceeds out of want , than that which riots out of plenty . The remedy of fruitfulness is easy , but no labour will ...
... look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is worse which proceeds out of want , than that which riots out of plenty . The remedy of fruitfulness is easy , but no labour will ...
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... look not for that success thou hast hitherto had ; " It never yet happened to any man since the beginning of the world , nor ever will , to have all things according to his desire , or to whom fortune was never opposite and adverse ...
... look not for that success thou hast hitherto had ; " It never yet happened to any man since the beginning of the world , nor ever will , to have all things according to his desire , or to whom fortune was never opposite and adverse ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration affection appear atheism Augustus Cæsar beauty Ben Jonson better called cern character Coleridge common creature death delight divine doth Dr Johnson dream earth England eyes fancy fear feel fortune genius give hand happy hath heart heaven honour hour human humour imagination Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour lady learning less live look Lord Lord Byron man's mankind manner marriage matter ment Milton mind nature ness never night object observed opinion pain Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps person Pilgrim's Progress pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry Quakers reason Roger de Coverley Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Sir Roger soul speak spirit Stesichorus taste Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion true truth Virgil virtue walk whole wise woman words write young