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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... hour's discourse , than by a day's meditation . It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia , that speech was like cloth of Arras , opened and put abroad , whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they ...
... hour's discourse , than by a day's meditation . It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia , that speech was like cloth of Arras , opened and put abroad , whereby the imagery doth appear in figure ; whereas in thoughts they ...
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... hours which we share , even from the breasts of our mother , until we return to our grandmother the earth , are part ... hour ; therefore we die daily , and I am older since I affirmed it . 3. I know many wise men that fear to die ; for ...
... hours which we share , even from the breasts of our mother , until we return to our grandmother the earth , are part ... hour ; therefore we die daily , and I am older since I affirmed it . 3. I know many wise men that fear to die ; for ...
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... hour . 9. But death is a doleful messenger to an usurer , and fate untimely cuts their thread ; for it is never mentioned by him , but when rum- ours of war and civil tumults put him in mind thereof . And when many hands are armed , and ...
... hour . 9. But death is a doleful messenger to an usurer , and fate untimely cuts their thread ; for it is never mentioned by him , but when rum- ours of war and civil tumults put him in mind thereof . And when many hands are armed , and ...
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... 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 philosopher . In intellect I always thought him next to ...
... 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 philosopher . In intellect I always thought him next to ...
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... hour wherein I would repent me to be hon- est , there were ways enough open for me to be rich . But flattery is a fine pick - lock of tender ears ; especially of those whom fortune hath borne high upon their wings , that submit their ...
... hour wherein I would repent me to be hon- est , there were ways enough open for me to be rich . But flattery is a fine pick - lock of tender ears ; especially of those whom fortune hath borne high upon their wings , that submit their ...
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