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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... manners . For as in the natural body , a wound , or solution of continuity , is worse than a corrupt humour ; so in ... manner , but yet it expresseth well the defor- mity : there is a master of scoffing , that in his catalogue of books ...
... manners . For as in the natural body , a wound , or solution of continuity , is worse than a corrupt humour ; so in ... manner , but yet it expresseth well the defor- mity : there is a master of scoffing , that in his catalogue of books ...
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... manner of the Stoics , that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum mirabilia . " Certainly if ...
... manner of the Stoics , that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarum optabilia , adversarum mirabilia . " Certainly if ...
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... manner , both parents , and schoolmasters , and servants , in creating and breeding an emulation between brothers , during childhood , which many times sorteth to discord when they are men , and dis- turbeth families . The Italians make ...
... manner , both parents , and schoolmasters , and servants , in creating and breeding an emulation between brothers , during childhood , which many times sorteth to discord when they are men , and dis- turbeth families . The Italians make ...
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... manner : being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either by outward pomp , or by triumphing over all opposition or competition ; whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to envy , in suffering them- selves ...
... manner : being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either by outward pomp , or by triumphing over all opposition or competition ; whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to envy , in suffering them- selves ...
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... manner , that the magazines , exchanges , burses , warehouses ; exer- schoolmen had framed a number of subtile and cises of horsemanship , fencing , training of sol- intricate axioms and theorems , to save the prac - diers and the like ...
... manner , that the magazines , exchanges , burses , warehouses ; exer- schoolmen had framed a number of subtile and cises of horsemanship , fencing , training of sol- intricate axioms and theorems , to save the prac - diers and the like ...
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