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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... rest , saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no ...
... rest , saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no ...
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... rest almost secure , that the care of those things will continue after him . So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires . A man hath a body , and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is , all offices of ...
... rest almost secure , that the care of those things will continue after him . So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires . A man hath a body , and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is , all offices of ...
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... rest to it . For it is a secret both in nature and state , that it is safer to change many things than one . Examine thy customs of diet , sleep , exercise , apparel , and the like ; and try in anything thou shalt judge hurtful , to ...
... rest to it . For it is a secret both in nature and state , that it is safer to change many things than one . Examine thy customs of diet , sleep , exercise , apparel , and the like ; and try in anything thou shalt judge hurtful , to ...
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... rest is but conceit . So saith Solomon , " Where much is , there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner , but the sight of it with his eyes ? " * The personal fruition in any man , cannot reach to feel great riches : there is ...
... rest is but conceit . So saith Solomon , " Where much is , there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner , but the sight of it with his eyes ? " * The personal fruition in any man , cannot reach to feel great riches : there is ...
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... rest ; and I shall presently be as happy for a few hours , as I had died the first hour I was born . [ " Few have spent more time over his ( Bacon's ) writings than I have , and nobody can have esti- mated him more highly as a ...
... rest ; and I shall presently be as happy for a few hours , as I had died the first hour I was born . [ " Few have spent more time over his ( Bacon's ) writings than I have , and nobody can have esti- mated him more highly as a ...
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