The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 Seiten |
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... character , 327 On the compiling of a dictionary , 236 SYDNEY SMITH . WILLIAM COWPER . Classical learning , 345 • The talent of secrecy , 238 · Female education , . 350 Country churches , . Conversation , WILLIAM HAZLITT . On the Tatler ...
... character , 327 On the compiling of a dictionary , 236 SYDNEY SMITH . WILLIAM COWPER . Classical learning , 345 • The talent of secrecy , 238 · Female education , . 350 Country churches , . Conversation , WILLIAM HAZLITT . On the Tatler ...
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... character ; and character , if properly conceived , sets the measured antitheses of the rhetorician at defiance . It is constantly eluding them . His criticism is good enough so far as it goes , but it does not go far ; it deals more ...
... character ; and character , if properly conceived , sets the measured antitheses of the rhetorician at defiance . It is constantly eluding them . His criticism is good enough so far as it goes , but it does not go far ; it deals more ...
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... character : these are represented by Montaigne and Lamb ; the satirists of society , manners , and social phenomena , by Addison and Steele ; the fanciful and ornamental Essayists - they who wreathe the human porch with the honeysuckles ...
... character : these are represented by Montaigne and Lamb ; the satirists of society , manners , and social phenomena , by Addison and Steele ; the fanciful and ornamental Essayists - they who wreathe the human porch with the honeysuckles ...
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... character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy , mis- chievous , wretched thing , no better than a kind of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity , and admits no excess but error . The desire of power in ...
... character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy , mis- chievous , wretched thing , no better than a kind of vermin . Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity , and admits no excess but error . The desire of power in ...
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... character appears in those lines of Horace : " Absentem qui rodit amicum , Qui non defendit alio culpante solutos Qui captat risus hominum famamq ; dicacis Fingere qui non visa potest , commissa tacere Qui nequit , Hic Niger est , Hunc ...
... character appears in those lines of Horace : " Absentem qui rodit amicum , Qui non defendit alio culpante solutos Qui captat risus hominum famamq ; dicacis Fingere qui non visa potest , commissa tacere Qui nequit , Hic Niger est , Hunc ...
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