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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... pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world ...
... pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this same truth is a naked and open day - light , that doth not show the masks , and mummeries , and triumphs of the world ...
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... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
... pleasure to stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle , and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
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... pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best dis- cover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . " The ...
... pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best dis- cover vice , but adversity doth best discover virtue . " The ...
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... pleasure in looking upon the fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy . For envy is a gadding passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep home ; " Non est curiosus , quin ...
... pleasure in looking upon the fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy . For envy is a gadding passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep home ; " Non est curiosus , quin ...
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... pleasure . It had been hard for him that spake it to. In things that a man would not be seen in himself , it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world ; as to say , The world says , or , There is a speech abroad . I knew one ...
... pleasure . It had been hard for him that spake it to. In things that a man would not be seen in himself , it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world ; as to say , The world says , or , There is a speech abroad . I knew one ...
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