The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen10David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... Genius of Poe 3970 All Men of the Same Clay GUICCIARDINI , FRANCIS How to Become Famous ( 1483-1540 ) The Passions as Motive Power Forgiveness and Amendment 3970 - That We May Do Great Things with- out Knowing How Nobility the True Rule ...
... Genius of Poe 3970 All Men of the Same Clay GUICCIARDINI , FRANCIS How to Become Famous ( 1483-1540 ) The Passions as Motive Power Forgiveness and Amendment 3970 - That We May Do Great Things with- out Knowing How Nobility the True Rule ...
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... Genius of Moses - 3980 KNOX , JOHN ( 1505-1572 ) Too Much Honey 3976 The Necessity of Schools 3976 LOWELL , JAMES Russell ( 1819-1891 ) Truth's Brave Simplicity 3980 LYTTELTON , LORD KRAPOTKIN , PRINCE ( 1842- ) ( 1709-1773 ) Addison ...
... Genius of Moses - 3980 KNOX , JOHN ( 1505-1572 ) Too Much Honey 3976 The Necessity of Schools 3976 LOWELL , JAMES Russell ( 1819-1891 ) Truth's Brave Simplicity 3980 LYTTELTON , LORD KRAPOTKIN , PRINCE ( 1842- ) ( 1709-1773 ) Addison ...
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... Genius - 3993 - 3990 Self - Control 3993 RICHTER , JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH Perseverance 3993 ( 1763-1825 ) The Path to a Happy Life 3993 The Last , Best Fruit of Life Why Poetry Was Invented 3990 The Education of the Young 3993 3990 " We ...
... Genius - 3993 - 3990 Self - Control 3993 RICHTER , JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH Perseverance 3993 ( 1763-1825 ) The Path to a Happy Life 3993 The Last , Best Fruit of Life Why Poetry Was Invented 3990 The Education of the Young 3993 3990 " We ...
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... Genius 3990 RICHTER , JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH ( 1763-1825 ) The Last , Best Fruit of Life 3990 Why Poetry Was Invented 3990 Fallen Souls 3990 ROCHEFOUCAULD , FRANÇOIS LA ( 1613-1680 ) Why We Seek New Friends 3990 Appearances 3990 The ...
... Genius 3990 RICHTER , JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH ( 1763-1825 ) The Last , Best Fruit of Life 3990 Why Poetry Was Invented 3990 Fallen Souls 3990 ROCHEFOUCAULD , FRANÇOIS LA ( 1613-1680 ) Why We Seek New Friends 3990 Appearances 3990 The ...
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... genius of Tacitus is so great that his work does not suffer by comparison with the best historical essays of the nineteenth century . It does not give the " Germania » undue credit to call it one of the greatest historical essays in the ...
... genius of Tacitus is so great that his work does not suffer by comparison with the best historical essays of the nineteenth century . It does not give the " Germania » undue credit to call it one of the greatest historical essays in the ...
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Página 3933 - The remotest discoveries of the Chemist, the Botanist, or Mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the Poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us...
Página 3748 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 3924 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Página 3952 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Página 3973 - There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood, that softens the heart, and brings it back to the feelings of infancy. Who that has languished, even in advanced life, in sickness and despondency, who that has pined on a weary bed in the neglect and loneliness of a foreign land, but has thought on the mother " that looked on his childhood," that smoothed his pillow, and administered to his helplessness?
Página 3990 - Brother, we are told that you have been preaching to the white people in this place. These people are our neighbors. We are acquainted with them. We will wait a little while and see what effect your preaching has upon them. If we find it does them good, makes them honest, and less disposed to cheat Indians, we will then consider again of what you have said.
Página 3932 - It is an acknowledgment of the beauty of the universe, an acknowledgment the more sincere, because not formal, but indirect ; it is a task light and easy to him who looks at the world in the spirit of love...
Página 3976 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Página 3967 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but, if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day ; demands it, before he can receive it, in a lump.
Página 3969 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.