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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... walking in Paul's , another suddenly came behind him , and called him by his true name , whereat straightways he looked back . But these small wares and petty points of cunning are infinite , and it were a good deed to make a list of ...
... walking in Paul's , another suddenly came behind him , and called him by his true name , whereat straightways he looked back . But these small wares and petty points of cunning are infinite , and it were a good deed to make a list of ...
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... walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like . So if a man's wit be wandering , let him study the mathematics ; for in demon- strations , if his wit be called away never so little , he must begin again : if his wit be ...
... walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like . So if a man's wit be wandering , let him study the mathematics ; for in demon- strations , if his wit be called away never so little , he must begin again : if his wit be ...
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... walks not in the highway , though she go per alta ; this is strength and the blood to virtue , to condemn things that be de- sired , and to neglect that which is feared . 4. Why should man be in love with his fetters , though of gold ...
... walks not in the highway , though she go per alta ; this is strength and the blood to virtue , to condemn things that be de- sired , and to neglect that which is feared . 4. Why should man be in love with his fetters , though of gold ...
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... walk alone , and please himself with fond imagin- | ation , let him by all means avoid it ; it is a bosom enemy , it is delightful melancholy , a friend in show , but a secret devil , a sweet poison , it will in the end be his undoing ...
... walk alone , and please himself with fond imagin- | ation , let him by all means avoid it ; it is a bosom enemy , it is delightful melancholy , a friend in show , but a secret devil , a sweet poison , it will in the end be his undoing ...
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... walking discourse . " The like perad- venture may he and he say with that old man in the comedy : " Nemo est meorum amicorum hodie , Apud quem expromere occulta mea audeam ; " and much inconvenience may both he and he soever then ...
... walking discourse . " The like perad- venture may he and he say with that old man in the comedy : " Nemo est meorum amicorum hodie , Apud quem expromere occulta mea audeam ; " and much inconvenience may both he and he soever then ...
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