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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... heart of a king , but she gave you not a kingdom , of which therefore fortune could not deprive you . But I doubt whether our age can fur- nish an example of worse or better treatment from her than yourself . In the first part of your ...
... heart of a king , but she gave you not a kingdom , of which therefore fortune could not deprive you . But I doubt whether our age can fur- nish an example of worse or better treatment from her than yourself . In the first part of your ...
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... heart , and to think thus : All these things which are re- hearsed out of the Scripture , I believe to be true , and of the rest truly I do think well , and can believe them also to be true ; but all these we must needs grant were ...
... heart , and to think thus : All these things which are re- hearsed out of the Scripture , I believe to be true , and of the rest truly I do think well , and can believe them also to be true ; but all these we must needs grant were ...
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... heart , but also into a heart well fortified , if watch be not well kept . It is a poor saying of Epi- curus , " Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus " as if man , made for the contempla- tion of heaven , and all noble objects ...
... heart , but also into a heart well fortified , if watch be not well kept . It is a poor saying of Epi- curus , " Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus " as if man , made for the contempla- tion of heaven , and all noble objects ...
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... hearts ; thou acknowledgest the up- right of heart ; thou judgest the hypocrite ; thou ponderest men's thoughts and doings as in a balance ; thou measurest their inten- tions as with a line ; vanity and crooked ways cannot be hid from ...
... hearts ; thou acknowledgest the up- right of heart ; thou judgest the hypocrite ; thou ponderest men's thoughts and doings as in a balance ; thou measurest their inten- tions as with a line ; vanity and crooked ways cannot be hid from ...
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... hearts ; that can compose his forehead to sadness and gravity , while he bids his heart be wanton and careless within , and , in the mean time , laughs within himself to think how smoothly he hath cozened the beholder . In whose silent ...
... hearts ; that can compose his forehead to sadness and gravity , while he bids his heart be wanton and careless within , and , in the mean time , laughs within himself to think how smoothly he hath cozened the beholder . In whose silent ...
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