Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other PapersTicknor and Fields, 1859 - 461 |
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... TRUTH is stranger than fiction . " We all say it , again and again : but how few of us believe it ! How few of us , when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men , take the story simply as it stands . On the contrary , we ...
... TRUTH is stranger than fiction . " We all say it , again and again : but how few of us believe it ! How few of us , when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men , take the story simply as it stands . On the contrary , we ...
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... truth is all but buried under mountains of dirt and chaff - an Augæan stable which , perhaps , will never be swept clean . Yet we have seen , with great delight , several attempts toward removal of the said superstratum of dirt and ...
... truth is all but buried under mountains of dirt and chaff - an Augæan stable which , perhaps , will never be swept clean . Yet we have seen , with great delight , several attempts toward removal of the said superstratum of dirt and ...
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... truth is , that as people begin to believe more in nobleness , and to gird up their loins to the doing of noble deeds , they discover more noble- ness in others . Raleigh's character was in its lowest Nadir in * We especially entreat ...
... truth is , that as people begin to believe more in nobleness , and to gird up their loins to the doing of noble deeds , they discover more noble- ness in others . Raleigh's character was in its lowest Nadir in * We especially entreat ...
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... truth is , he demands of them too high a standard of thought and purpose . He is often a whole heaven above them in the huge- ness of his imagination , the nobleness of his motive ; and Don Quixote can often find no better squire than ...
... truth is , he demands of them too high a standard of thought and purpose . He is often a whole heaven above them in the huge- ness of his imagination , the nobleness of his motive ; and Don Quixote can often find no better squire than ...
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... truth , he cannot do better than to read the whole of the documents connected with the two successful , and the one unsuccessful , attempts at finding a golden kingdom . Let them read first Prescott's Conquests at Mexico and Peru , and ...
... truth , he cannot do better than to read the whole of the documents connected with the two successful , and the one unsuccessful , attempts at finding a golden kingdom . Let them read first Prescott's Conquests at Mexico and Peru , and ...
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