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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... 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 , just as his stature is best measured by his coffin . It is a mistake to suppose that ...
... 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 , just as his stature is best measured by his coffin . It is a mistake to suppose that ...
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... follow me ; that is , except thou have a vocation , wherein thou mayest do as much good with little means as with great : for otherwise , in feeding the streams thou driest the fountain . Neither is there only a habit of good- ness ...
... follow me ; that is , except thou have a vocation , wherein thou mayest do as much good with little means as with great : for otherwise , in feeding the streams thou driest the fountain . Neither is there only a habit of good- ness ...
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... follow fools ; and argu- and so of consistories * ecclesiastic : the churches ments are fitted to practise in a reversed order . and monasteries , with the monuments which are It was gravely said by some of the prelates in therein ...
... follow fools ; and argu- and so of consistories * ecclesiastic : the churches ments are fitted to practise in a reversed order . and monasteries , with the monuments which are It was gravely said by some of the prelates in therein ...
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... follow his motion , let it be with condition ; if you allow his counsel , let it be with alleging farther reason . Men had need beware how they be too perfect in compliments ; for be they never so sufficient otherwise , their enviers ...
... follow his motion , let it be with condition ; if you allow his counsel , let it be with alleging farther reason . Men had need beware how they be too perfect in compliments ; for be they never so sufficient otherwise , their enviers ...
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... follow the arch - flatterer , which is a man's self ; and wherein a man thinketh best of himself , therein the flatterer will up- hold him most : but if he be an impudent flatterer , look , wherein a man is conscious to himself that he ...
... follow the arch - flatterer , which is a man's self ; and wherein a man thinketh best of himself , therein the flatterer will up- hold him most : but if he be an impudent flatterer , look , wherein a man is conscious to himself that he ...
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