The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 85–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... give a fair view of the wealth and broad expanse of the writings of the British Essay- ists , beginning with Lord Bacon's " Essays , Civil and Moral , " and ending with the brilliant periodical contributions of Macaulay and Carlyle ...
... give a fair view of the wealth and broad expanse of the writings of the British Essay- ists , beginning with Lord Bacon's " Essays , Civil and Moral , " and ending with the brilliant periodical contributions of Macaulay and Carlyle ...
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... give alms to dogs and birds : insomuch , as Bus- bechius reporteth , a Christian boy in Constanti- nople had like to have been stoned , for gagging , in a waggishness , a long - billed fowl . Errors , indeed , in this virtue of goodness ...
... give alms to dogs and birds : insomuch , as Bus- bechius reporteth , a Christian boy in Constanti- nople had like to have been stoned , for gagging , in a waggishness , a long - billed fowl . Errors , indeed , in this virtue of goodness ...
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... give it in precept ; for there be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent coun- tenances . Yet this would be done with a demure abashing of your eye sometimes , as the Jesuits also do use . Another is , that when you have ...
... give it in precept ; for there be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent coun- tenances . Yet this would be done with a demure abashing of your eye sometimes , as the Jesuits also do use . Another is , that when you have ...
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... Give good hearing to those that give the first information in business ; and rather direct them Believed to have been Sir Amyas Paulet , Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to the court of France . in the beginning , than interrupt them in the ...
... Give good hearing to those that give the first information in business ; and rather direct them Believed to have been Sir Amyas Paulet , Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to the court of France . in the beginning , than interrupt them in the ...
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... give it a hard phrase , those that want friends to open themselves unto , are cannibals of their own hearts . But one thing is most admirable , wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship , which is , that this ...
... give it a hard phrase , those that want friends to open themselves unto , are cannibals of their own hearts . But one thing is most admirable , wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship , which is , that this ...
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