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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... Man's use and function ,. 510 THOMAS CARLYLE . Man's business in life , 512 Burns , 480 On a proper choice of reading , 493 Ideas of beauty depend on purity of mind , 512 Secret of true happiness , 513 • Love of Nature , 513 A sea boat ...
... Man's use and function ,. 510 THOMAS CARLYLE . Man's business in life , 512 Burns , 480 On a proper choice of reading , 493 Ideas of beauty depend on purity of mind , 512 Secret of true happiness , 513 • Love of Nature , 513 A sea boat ...
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... man's working would have been different more or less ; but it does not of necessity follow that the results would have been more valuable . A man's power in literature , as in everything else , is best measured by his accomplishment ...
... man's working would have been different more or less ; but it does not of necessity follow that the results would have been more valuable . A man's power in literature , as in everything else , is best measured by his accomplishment ...
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... man's work is the lamp by which he reads his features . And then he so apportions praise and blame ; so sets off the jocose and familiar with a moral solemnity ; makes anecdote , and detail of dress , and allusion to personal grace or ...
... man's work is the lamp by which he reads his features . And then he so apportions praise and blame ; so sets off the jocose and familiar with a moral solemnity ; makes anecdote , and detail of dress , and allusion to personal grace or ...
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... man with pity , and not with swelling or pride . Cer- tainly , it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity , rest in Providence , and turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth , to ...
... man with pity , and not with swelling or pride . Cer- tainly , it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity , rest in Providence , and turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth , to ...
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... man may have a quarrel * to marry when he will . But yet he was reputed one of the wise men , that made answer to the question ... man's self ; and where there is no comparison , no envy ; and therefore kings are not envied but by kings ...
... man may have a quarrel * to marry when he will . But yet he was reputed one of the wise men , that made answer to the question ... man's self ; and where there is no comparison , no envy ; and therefore kings are not envied but by kings ...
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