The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Tom 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... hearts of at least loving and hopeful parents and friends with won- der and admiration at their first literary efforts , their essays . The more ambitious graduates call their productions orations , but the great majority name theirs ...
... hearts of at least loving and hopeful parents and friends with won- der and admiration at their first literary efforts , their essays . The more ambitious graduates call their productions orations , but the great majority name theirs ...
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... heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if possible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is a pity so many useful discoveries which I have made should be in the ...
... heart in speech , I am resolved to do it in writing , and to print myself out , if possible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is a pity so many useful discoveries which I have made should be in the ...
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... heart , and too great a fondness for the present world . Nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives , without determining ourselves one . way or other , in those points which are of the last importance to There are ...
... heart , and too great a fondness for the present world . Nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives , without determining ourselves one . way or other , in those points which are of the last importance to There are ...
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... heart is an Etna , that , instead of Vul- can's shop , incloses Cupid's forge in it . His endeavoring to drown his love in wine is throwing oil upon the fire . He would insinuate to his mistress that the fire of love , like that of the ...
... heart is an Etna , that , instead of Vul- can's shop , incloses Cupid's forge in it . His endeavoring to drown his love in wine is throwing oil upon the fire . He would insinuate to his mistress that the fire of love , like that of the ...
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... heart , each would declare her scorn of him the next moment ; but he is well received by them because it is the fashion , and opposition to each other brings them insensibly into an imitation of each other . What adds to him the ...
... heart , each would declare her scorn of him the next moment ; but he is well received by them because it is the fashion , and opposition to each other brings them insensibly into an imitation of each other . What adds to him the ...
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Strona 233 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Strona 62 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Strona 234 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Strona 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Strona 313 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Strona 309 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Strona 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Strona 72 - Square: it is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love, by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege,' fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Strona 336 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Strona 389 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.