The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen 2F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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Página 438
... appear to love this adventurous life - if he have an instinct greedy of these kinds of peril - if the savage rejoice in the delights of an idle- ness so dearly purchased - ought it to be concluded that he is more happy than our day ...
... appear to love this adventurous life - if he have an instinct greedy of these kinds of peril - if the savage rejoice in the delights of an idle- ness so dearly purchased - ought it to be concluded that he is more happy than our day ...
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... appears from Edward the Confessor's laws , the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the dukes or heretochs , who were constituted through every province and county in the kingdom ; being taken out of the principal nobility ...
... appears from Edward the Confessor's laws , the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the dukes or heretochs , who were constituted through every province and county in the kingdom ; being taken out of the principal nobility ...
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... appear from our translation , are longer than is usual in the other kinds of Hebrew poetry ; and the melody is ... appears that there are contained in the Holy Scriptures . full exemplifications of several of the chief kinds of poetical ...
... appear from our translation , are longer than is usual in the other kinds of Hebrew poetry ; and the melody is ... appears that there are contained in the Holy Scriptures . full exemplifications of several of the chief kinds of poetical ...
Página 485
... appear to have been more happily translated than the writings of this prophet . Majesty is his reigning character ; a majesty more commanding , and more uniformly supported , than is to be found among the rest of the Old Testament poets ...
... appear to have been more happily translated than the writings of this prophet . Majesty is his reigning character ; a majesty more commanding , and more uniformly supported , than is to be found among the rest of the Old Testament poets ...
Página 490
... appear to us more beautiful than others . On inquiring further , we find that the regularity of some figures , and the graceful variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty which we discern in them ; but when we attempt to go a ...
... appear to us more beautiful than others . On inquiring further , we find that the regularity of some figures , and the graceful variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty which we discern in them ; but when we attempt to go a ...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen 2 David Josiah Brewer Vista de fragmentos - 1900 |
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Página 445 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 806 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Página 665 - Love thou thy land, with love far- brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought.
Página 765 - Physician art thou ? one all eyes, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave...
Página 702 - I say unto you, refrain from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to naught; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found to fight against God.
Página 574 - For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Página 613 - There is therefore but one comfort left, that, though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death...
Página 587 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
Página 578 - But to difference myself nearer, and draw into a lesser circle : there is no Church, whose every part so squares unto my conscience ; whose Articles, constitutions, and customs, seem so consonant unto reason, and as it were framed to my particular devotion, as this whereof I hold my belief, the Church of England...
Página 706 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty, or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or which form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts.