Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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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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Seite 231 - 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 33 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Seite 232 - 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 53 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 307 - 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 56 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
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 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Seite 334 - 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 nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...