A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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... learned and polite and Christian Europeans , like so many pikes and sharks , prey upon everything that we can swallow . It is the great boast of eloquence and philosophy , that they first congre- gated men dispersed , united them into ...
... learned and polite and Christian Europeans , like so many pikes and sharks , prey upon everything that we can swallow . It is the great boast of eloquence and philosophy , that they first congre- gated men dispersed , united them into ...
Page 143
... learned about them . There was now and then the formality of saying a lesson , but if you had not learned it , a brush across the shoulders ( just enough to disturb a fly ) was the sole remonstrance . Field never used the rod ; and in ...
... learned about them . There was now and then the formality of saying a lesson , but if you had not learned it , a brush across the shoulders ( just enough to disturb a fly ) was the sole remonstrance . Field never used the rod ; and in ...
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... learned the conduct of the four marines of the Wager . There was no room for these brave fellows in the boat , and they were left behind upon the island to a certain death . They were soldiers , they said , and knew well enough it was ...
... learned the conduct of the four marines of the Wager . There was no room for these brave fellows in the boat , and they were left behind upon the island to a certain death . They were soldiers , they said , and knew well enough it was ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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