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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... light . or careless mood , that the poorest life is serious enough when seen against eternity , and that we ourselves , however seldom we may remember it , are but momentary shadows projected upon it . Carlyle does not write " scoundrel ...
... light . or careless mood , that the poorest life is serious enough when seen against eternity , and that we ourselves , however seldom we may remember it , are but momentary shadows projected upon it . Carlyle does not write " scoundrel ...
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... light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world , half so stately and daintily as ... light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and His Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of His ...
... light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world , half so stately and daintily as ... light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and His Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of His ...
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... light into the face of His chosen . The poet that beautified the sect , that was otherwise inferior to the rest , saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a ...
... light into the face of His chosen . The poet that beautified the sect , that was otherwise inferior to the rest , saith yet excellently well : " It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a ...
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... light thing to be vouched in so serious a manner , but yet it expresseth well the defor- mity : there is a master of scoffing , that in his catalogue of books of a feigned library sets down this title of a book , " The Morris - dance ...
... light thing to be vouched in so serious a manner , but yet it expresseth well the defor- mity : there is a master of scoffing , that in his catalogue of books of a feigned library sets down this title of a book , " The Morris - dance ...
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... light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition . A single life doth well with churchmen : for charity will hardly water the ground , where it must first fill a pool . It is indifferent for judges and magis- trates ...
... light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition . A single life doth well with churchmen : for charity will hardly water the ground , where it must first fill a pool . It is indifferent for judges and magis- trates ...
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