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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... equal , that is surest of immortality which occupies the least space ; scattered forces are then concentrated , like garden roses gathered into one bouquet , or English beauty in the boxes at the opera . Leisure and life - long devotion ...
... equal , that is surest of immortality which occupies the least space ; scattered forces are then concentrated , like garden roses gathered into one bouquet , or English beauty in the boxes at the opera . Leisure and life - long devotion ...
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... equals when they are raised . For it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes , and pointeth at them , and cometh oftener in their remembrance , and incurreth likewise more into the note of others ; and envy ever redoubleth from speech ...
... equals when they are raised . For it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes , and pointeth at them , and cometh oftener in their remembrance , and incurreth likewise more into the note of others ; and envy ever redoubleth from speech ...
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... 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 conversation : but the Roman name attaineth the true ...
... 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 conversation : but the Roman name attaineth the true ...
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... equal , or come near in doing , you would destroy or ruin with evil speaking ; as if you had bound both your wits and natures prentices to slander , and then came forth the best artificers when you could form the foulest calumnies ...
... equal , or come near in doing , you would destroy or ruin with evil speaking ; as if you had bound both your wits and natures prentices to slander , and then came forth the best artificers when you could form the foulest calumnies ...
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... equal slavery . Have not I seen the pomp of a whole kingdom , and what a foreign king could bring hither ? Also to make himself gazed and wondered at , laid forth as it were to the show , and vanish all away in a day ? And shall that ...
... equal slavery . Have not I seen the pomp of a whole kingdom , and what a foreign king could bring hither ? Also to make himself gazed and wondered at , laid forth as it were to the show , and vanish all away in a day ? And shall that ...
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