The Hundred Best English EssaysFrederick Edwin Smith Earl of Birkenhead Cassell, 1929 - 921 Seiten |
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... success of good causes , and yet indignantly deny that the goodness of a cause should be inferred from its success . We agree to applaud the prophecy , cited with applause by Carlyle himself , that Napoleon's empire would fail because ...
... success of good causes , and yet indignantly deny that the goodness of a cause should be inferred from its success . We agree to applaud the prophecy , cited with applause by Carlyle himself , that Napoleon's empire would fail because ...
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... success which is so often objected to in him ? Some tyrannical institution - slavery , for example - lives and flourishes through long ages . Is it thereby justified ? Is it not a fact , and if fact and truth are the same things , is it ...
... success which is so often objected to in him ? Some tyrannical institution - slavery , for example - lives and flourishes through long ages . Is it thereby justified ? Is it not a fact , and if fact and truth are the same things , is it ...
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... success immensely . I often wonder , however , whether the public understand that that success is entirely due to the fact that he did not accept their standard , but realized his own . With their standard the Lyceum would have been a ...
... success immensely . I often wonder , however , whether the public understand that that success is entirely due to the fact that he did not accept their standard , but realized his own . With their standard the Lyceum would have been a ...
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HUGH LATIMER 14911555 | 1 |
FRANCIS BACON Baron Verulam Viscount ST ALBANS 15611626 | 17 |
BEN JONSON 15731637 | 23 |
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