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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... hope , stood aloof , hating them almost as renegades , and never ceasing to give utterance to his despair . These men wrote in a period of unexampled literary activity , and in the thick of stupendous events : Scott , Moore , and Byron ...
... hope , stood aloof , hating them almost as renegades , and never ceasing to give utterance to his despair . These men wrote in a period of unexampled literary activity , and in the thick of stupendous events : Scott , Moore , and Byron ...
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... hope to attain to another's virtue , will seek to come at even hand by depressing another's fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive , is com- monly envious : for to know much of other men's matters cannot be , because all that ado ...
... hope to attain to another's virtue , will seek to come at even hand by depressing another's fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive , is com- monly envious : for to know much of other men's matters cannot be , because all that ado ...
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... hope it will be more profitable . For men do more willingly listen , and with more favour , to precept than reprehension . Among divers opinions of an art , and most of them con- trary in themselves , it is hard to make election ; and ...
... hope it will be more profitable . For men do more willingly listen , and with more favour , to precept than reprehension . Among divers opinions of an art , and most of them con- trary in themselves , it is hard to make election ; and ...
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... hope ; vain terror , bad ment , divine spirits , cannot moderate themselves objects are to be removed , and all such persons in this behalf ; such as are sound in body and mind , in whose companies they be not well pleased . " Stoics ...
... hope ; vain terror , bad ment , divine spirits , cannot moderate themselves objects are to be removed , and all such persons in this behalf ; such as are sound in body and mind , in whose companies they be not well pleased . " Stoics ...
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... hope to have all things answer our own expectation , to have a continuance of good success and fortunes : Fortuna nunquam perpetuo est bona . And , as Minutius Felix , the Roman con- sul , told that insulting Coriolanus , drunk with ...
... hope to have all things answer our own expectation , to have a continuance of good success and fortunes : Fortuna nunquam perpetuo est bona . And , as Minutius Felix , the Roman con- sul , told that insulting Coriolanus , drunk with ...
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