Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... essays to try your strength upon the most shining passages of a distinguished author . The attempt , in- deed , will be something bold ; but as it is a contention which passes in secret , it cannot be taxed with presumption . Not but ...
... essays to try your strength upon the most shining passages of a distinguished author . The attempt , in- deed , will be something bold ; but as it is a contention which passes in secret , it cannot be taxed with presumption . Not but ...
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... essay on the Remedies of Good and Evil Fer- tune is a singular work in a colloquial form , and a most scholastic style . It seems to be framed upon the model of the Tusculan Questions , with what success those who have read it may ...
... essay on the Remedies of Good and Evil Fer- tune is a singular work in a colloquial form , and a most scholastic style . It seems to be framed upon the model of the Tusculan Questions , with what success those who have read it may ...
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... Essays ' are among the most re- markable of literary productions . Absolutely without order , method , or indeed anything like intelligible purpose , they have yet exercised an influence , particularly on French and English literature ...
... Essays ' are among the most re- markable of literary productions . Absolutely without order , method , or indeed anything like intelligible purpose , they have yet exercised an influence , particularly on French and English literature ...
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... Essays , unequal as they must be from the very nature of such compositions . They are deeper and more discriminating ... ESSAY X. OF LOVE . The stage is more beholding to love than the life of men ; for as to the stage , love is even ...
... Essays , unequal as they must be from the very nature of such compositions . They are deeper and more discriminating ... ESSAY X. OF LOVE . The stage is more beholding to love than the life of men ; for as to the stage , love is even ...
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... Essays . RULES FOR IMPROVING THE MEMORY . First , soundly infix in thy mind what thou desirest to remember . What wonder is it if agitation of business jog that out of thy head which was there rather tacked than fastened ? Whereas those ...
... Essays . RULES FOR IMPROVING THE MEMORY . First , soundly infix in thy mind what thou desirest to remember . What wonder is it if agitation of business jog that out of thy head which was there rather tacked than fastened ? Whereas those ...
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