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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... face , have offered a flower to a bailiff in the execution of his duty , and been both hurt and astonished if that functionary had proved dead to its touching suggestions . His Essays are much less valuable than Lamb's , because they ...
... face , have offered a flower to a bailiff in the execution of his duty , and been both hurt and astonished if that functionary had proved dead to its touching suggestions . His Essays are much less valuable than Lamb's , because they ...
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... face of the matter , or chaos ; then He breathed light into the face of man ; and still * Gen. ii . 7 . when the whole body is corrupted and dissolved ; when.
... face of the matter , or chaos ; then He breathed light into the face of man ; and still * Gen. ii . 7 . when the whole body is corrupted and dissolved ; when.
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... face , and friends weeping , and blacks , and obsequies , and the like , show death terrible . It is worthy the observing , that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of death : and there- He ...
... face , and friends weeping , and blacks , and obsequies , and the like , show death terrible . It is worthy the observing , that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of death : and there- He ...
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... face of a church , that voice had need continually to sound in men's ears , " Nolite exire , " go not out . The ... faces to resemble Moors . ing and reading of controversies into treatises of mortification and devotion . Concerning the ...
... face of a church , that voice had need continually to sound in men's ears , " Nolite exire , " go not out . The ... faces to resemble Moors . ing and reading of controversies into treatises of mortification and devotion . Concerning the ...
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... face or comeliness , say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty , much less extol them a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like . But all these things are graceful in a ...
... face or comeliness , say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty , much less extol them a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like . But all these things are graceful in a ...
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