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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... person envied do come forth most into the outward parts , and so meet the blow . But leaving these curiosities , though not un- worthy to be thought on in fit place , we will handle what persons are apt to envy others : what persons are ...
... person envied do come forth most into the outward parts , and so meet the blow . But leaving these curiosities , though not un- worthy to be thought on in fit place , we will handle what persons are apt to envy others : what persons are ...
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... person , are great wastes of time ; and though they seem to proceed of modesty , they are bravery . Yet be- ware of ... persons of judgment , to see what shifts these formalists have , and what prospectives to make superficies to seem ...
... person , are great wastes of time ; and though they seem to proceed of modesty , they are bravery . Yet be- ware of ... persons of judgment , to see what shifts these formalists have , and what prospectives to make superficies to seem ...
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... persons to be as it were companions , and almost equals to themselves , which many times sorteth to inconvenience . The modern languages give unto such persons the name of favourites or privadoes , as if it were matter of grace or ...
... persons to be as it were companions , and almost equals to themselves , which many times sorteth to inconvenience . The modern languages give unto such persons the name of favourites or privadoes , as if it were matter of grace or ...
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... person is good , when a man's face breedeth regard , as commonly with inferiors ; or in tender cases , where a man's eye upon the countenance of him with whom he speaketh , may give him a direction how far to go : and generally where a ...
... person is good , when a man's face breedeth regard , as commonly with inferiors ; or in tender cases , where a man's eye upon the countenance of him with whom he speaketh , may give him a direction how far to go : and generally where a ...
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... persons than virtuous , for the common people understand not many excellent virtues : the lowest virtues draw praise from them : the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration ; but of the highest virtues they have no sense ...
... persons than virtuous , for the common people understand not many excellent virtues : the lowest virtues draw praise from them : the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration ; but of the highest virtues they have no sense ...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Workds of the ... Robert Cochrane Visualização integral - 1876 |
The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ... Robert Cochrane Visualização integral - 1887 |
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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