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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... Idea Apothegms from His History - MARGARET OF NAVARRE ( 1492-1549 ) · 3981 PARNELL , THOMAS ( 1679-1718 ) On Taking a Man's Measure Love and Jealousy 3982 PASCAL , BLAISE MARSHALL , JOHN ( 1755-1835 ) ( 1623-1662 ) The Character of ...
... Idea Apothegms from His History - MARGARET OF NAVARRE ( 1492-1549 ) · 3981 PARNELL , THOMAS ( 1679-1718 ) On Taking a Man's Measure Love and Jealousy 3982 PASCAL , BLAISE MARSHALL , JOHN ( 1755-1835 ) ( 1623-1662 ) The Character of ...
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... Idea - 3998 TAYLOR , BAYARD WILLIS , N. P. ( 1825-1878 ) ( 1806-1867 ) On the Death of Poe Crossing the Arctic Circle 4003 3998 A Day without a Sun WINTER , WILLIAM ( 1836- ) 3999 Character TAYLOR , JEREMY ( 1613-1667 ) 4004 On Marriage ...
... Idea - 3998 TAYLOR , BAYARD WILLIS , N. P. ( 1825-1878 ) ( 1806-1867 ) On the Death of Poe Crossing the Arctic Circle 4003 3998 A Day without a Sun WINTER , WILLIAM ( 1836- ) 3999 Character TAYLOR , JEREMY ( 1613-1667 ) 4004 On Marriage ...
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... religious sentence , inflicted with the sanction of the god , who , according to the German creed , attends their armies on the day of battle . To impress on their minds the idea of a tutelar deity , they carry 3678 CORNELIUS TACITUS.
... religious sentence , inflicted with the sanction of the god , who , according to the German creed , attends their armies on the day of battle . To impress on their minds the idea of a tutelar deity , they carry 3678 CORNELIUS TACITUS.
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... idea of a woman led into captivity is insupportable . In consequence of this prevailing sentiment , the states , which deliver as hostages the daughters of illustrious families , are bound by the most ef- fectual obligation . There is ...
... idea of a woman led into captivity is insupportable . In consequence of this prevailing sentiment , the states , which deliver as hostages the daughters of illustrious families , are bound by the most ef- fectual obligation . There is ...
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... ideas . Strangers to artifice , and knowing no re- finement , they tell their sentiments without disguise . The pleas- ure of the table expands their hearts , and calls forth every secret . On the following day the subject of debate is ...
... ideas . Strangers to artifice , and knowing no re- finement , they tell their sentiments without disguise . The pleas- ure of the table expands their hearts , and calls forth every secret . On the following day the subject of debate is ...
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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.