The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... perhaps as little apt to be discredited as any later writer on the subjects which occupied his attention . He was born in 1780 at Aberdeen , Scotland , and educated in med- icine at its university and in London . For a long time he held ...
... perhaps as little apt to be discredited as any later writer on the subjects which occupied his attention . He was born in 1780 at Aberdeen , Scotland , and educated in med- icine at its university and in London . For a long time he held ...
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... upon a match be- ing applied to it , he would probably have an immediate convic- tion that a similar explosion would take place again in similar circumstances . But he would perhaps go further than this 4 JOHN ABERCROMBIE.
... upon a match be- ing applied to it , he would probably have an immediate convic- tion that a similar explosion would take place again in similar circumstances . But he would perhaps go further than this 4 JOHN ABERCROMBIE.
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David Josiah Brewer. circumstances . But he would perhaps go further than this : he would probably expect a similar explosion when he applied a match to other black powders , with the nature of which he was unacquainted , such as ...
David Josiah Brewer. circumstances . But he would perhaps go further than this : he would probably expect a similar explosion when he applied a match to other black powders , with the nature of which he was unacquainted , such as ...
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... perhaps we may add , the poet and the dramatist . The active emotions , or those which influence human conduct , are referable to two classes ; namely , those which affect men in- dividually as moral and responsible agents , and those ...
... perhaps we may add , the poet and the dramatist . The active emotions , or those which influence human conduct , are referable to two classes ; namely , those which affect men in- dividually as moral and responsible agents , and those ...
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... perhaps the best representative France has given the world of the " New Woman . " Since the death of her second husband in 1877 , she has devoted a large share of her attention to politics , and her salon has been a rendezvous for the ...
... perhaps the best representative France has given the world of the " New Woman . " Since the death of her second husband in 1877 , she has devoted a large share of her attention to politics , and her salon has been a rendezvous for the ...
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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.