The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... , its normal motives of activity , the more of power , of virtue of stability will it acquire . If , then , the natural , moral , and social conditions regulating the existence of individuals were more 14 MADAME ADAM.
... , its normal motives of activity , the more of power , of virtue of stability will it acquire . If , then , the natural , moral , and social conditions regulating the existence of individuals were more 14 MADAME ADAM.
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... existence through the action of her who had rebelled , however wantonly , against the oppressive restrictions then imposed upon members of her sex . Rome was contented , austere , temperate in her ambition , and ignorant of defeat just ...
... existence through the action of her who had rebelled , however wantonly , against the oppressive restrictions then imposed upon members of her sex . Rome was contented , austere , temperate in her ambition , and ignorant of defeat just ...
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... existence , in the formation of the heavens and the earth ; and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to , who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs . Aristotle says , that should a man live under ...
... existence , in the formation of the heavens and the earth ; and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to , who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs . Aristotle says , that should a man live under ...
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... existence , in his setting out for Eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it . ' I directed my sight as I was ordered , and , whether or no the good ...
... existence , in his setting out for Eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it . ' I directed my sight as I was ordered , and , whether or no the good ...
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... existence ? Think not man was made in vain , who has such an Eternity reserved for him . ' I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands . At length , said I , ' Show me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under ...
... existence ? Think not man was made in vain , who has such an Eternity reserved for him . ' I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands . At length , said I , ' Show me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.