The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Հատոր 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... reason of its imperfections and incompleteness , deserves no or only partial recognition . At the mention of the word , the mind involuntarily recalls the annual commencements of the various high schools , acad- emies , and other ...
... reason of its imperfections and incompleteness , deserves no or only partial recognition . At the mention of the word , the mind involuntarily recalls the annual commencements of the various high schools , acad- emies , and other ...
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... reason , but it is not the less true , that the highest ac- quirement ever made by the most exalted genius of man has been only to trace a part , and a very small part , of that order which the Deity has established in his works . When ...
... reason , but it is not the less true , that the highest ac- quirement ever made by the most exalted genius of man has been only to trace a part , and a very small part , of that order which the Deity has established in his works . When ...
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... reason of being , 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.
... reason of being , 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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... reason , therefore , I shall publish a sheet full of thoughts every morning for the benefit of my contempo- raries ... reasons , I must keep to myself , at least for some time : I mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings ...
... reason , therefore , I shall publish a sheet full of thoughts every morning for the benefit of my contempo- raries ... reasons , I must keep to myself , at least for some time : I mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings ...
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... reason likewise that I keep my complexion and dress as very great secrets ; though it is not impossible but I may make discoveries of both in the progress of the work I have undertaken . After having been thus particular upon myself , I ...
... reason likewise that I keep my complexion and dress as very great secrets ; though it is not impossible but I may make discoveries of both in the progress of the work I have undertaken . After having been thus particular upon myself , I ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.