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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... observe , that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a " Quanta pati- mur : " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy ...
... observe , that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a " Quanta pati- mur : " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy ...
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... observed : which both times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and therefore , show it to be the child of ... observation . This is well to be weighed , that boldness is ever blind ; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences ...
... observed : which both times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and therefore , show it to be the child of ... observation . This is well to be weighed , that boldness is ever blind ; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences ...
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... observation . Let diaries there- superstition hath been the confusion of many fore be brought in use . The things to be seen states ; and bringeth in a new primum mobile , and observed are : the courts of princes , especi- that ...
... observation . Let diaries there- superstition hath been the confusion of many fore be brought in use . The things to be seen states ; and bringeth in a new primum mobile , and observed are : the courts of princes , especi- that ...
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... observed by one , that himself came very hardly to a little riches , and very easily to great riches . For when a man's stock is come to that , that he can expect the prime of markets , and overcome those bargains , which for their ...
... observed by one , that himself came very hardly to a little riches , and very easily to great riches . For when a man's stock is come to that , that he can expect the prime of markets , and overcome those bargains , which for their ...
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... observation . Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and ... observe them in others ; and let him trust himself with the rest . For if he labour too much to express them , he shall ...
... observation . Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and ... observe them in others ; and let him trust himself with the rest . For if he labour too much to express them , he shall ...
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