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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... affection , Of life , Universal charity , Oblivion , Letter to a friend , SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . Against excessive grief , . Of poetry , 75 • 76 76 SIR RICHARD STEELE . 77 • 78 Scene of domestic felicity , 79 Death - bed scene , · 79 True ...
... affection , Of life , Universal charity , Oblivion , Letter to a friend , SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . Against excessive grief , . Of poetry , 75 • 76 76 SIR RICHARD STEELE . 77 • 78 Scene of domestic felicity , 79 Death - bed scene , · 79 True ...
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... affections , provoked many to die , out of mere compassion to their sovereign , and as the truest sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , niceness and satiety ; " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser ...
... affections , provoked many to die , out of mere compassion to their sovereign , and as the truest sort of followers . Nay , Seneca adds , niceness and satiety ; " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle , non tantum fortis , aut miser ...
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... affection of parents towards their several children is many times unequal ; and sometimes unworthy ; especially in the mother ; as Solomon saith , " A wise son rejoiceth the father , but an ungracious son shames the mother . " A man ...
... affection of parents towards their several children is many times unequal ; and sometimes unworthy ; especially in the mother ; as Solomon saith , " A wise son rejoiceth the father , but an ungracious son shames the mother . " A man ...
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... affections which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch , but love and envy . They both have vehement wishes ; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions : and they come easily into the eye ; especially upon the ...
... affections which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch , but love and envy . They both have vehement wishes ; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions : and they come easily into the eye ; especially upon the ...
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... affection of envy that of all other affections it is the most importune and continual ; for of other affections there is occasion given but now and then ; and therefore it is well said , " Invidia festos dies non agit : " for it is ever ...
... affection of envy that of all other affections it is the most importune and continual ; for of other affections there is occasion given but now and then ; and therefore it is well said , " Invidia festos dies non agit : " for it is ever ...
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