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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... perhaps more widely popular than his great contemporary ; but he is a different kind of thinker and writer altogether . He did not brood over the abysses of being as Carlyle continually does . The sense of time and death did not haunt ...
... perhaps more widely popular than his great contemporary ; but he is a different kind of thinker and writer altogether . He did not brood over the abysses of being as Carlyle continually does . The sense of time and death did not haunt ...
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... perhaps they have heard some talk , Such a one is a great rich man ; and another except to it , Yea , but he hath a great charge of children : as if it were an abatement to his riches . But the most ordinary cause of a single life is ...
... perhaps they have heard some talk , Such a one is a great rich man ; and another except to it , Yea , but he hath a great charge of children : as if it were an abatement to his riches . But the most ordinary cause of a single life is ...
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... perhaps such a one , broken in thoughts of his moneys abroad , and cursing the monuments of coin which are in his house , can be content to think of death , and , being hasty of perdition , will perhaps hang himself , lest his throat ...
... perhaps such a one , broken in thoughts of his moneys abroad , and cursing the monuments of coin which are in his house , can be content to think of death , and , being hasty of perdition , will perhaps hang himself , lest his throat ...
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... perhaps the most permanent evidence of his sagacity . In this field he was thoroughly at home ; the study of mankind occupied the largest part of his time . It may be said that to men wishing to rise in the world by politic management ...
... perhaps the most permanent evidence of his sagacity . In this field he was thoroughly at home ; the study of mankind occupied the largest part of his time . It may be said that to men wishing to rise in the world by politic management ...
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... perhaps have wanted something else that is necessary to felicity , and pined away for the want of the title of an emperor * Eccles . v . 11 . or a god . The reason of this is , that greatness has no reality in nature , but is a creature ...
... perhaps have wanted something else that is necessary to felicity , and pined away for the want of the title of an emperor * Eccles . v . 11 . or a god . The reason of this is , that greatness has no reality in nature , but is a creature ...
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