A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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... ourselves , we shall very often find points of . some uncertainty left unguarded , of which the show of the strength of our enemy will oblige us to see better to the defence . . . . It was not without some shame , and much uneasiness ...
... ourselves , we shall very often find points of . some uncertainty left unguarded , of which the show of the strength of our enemy will oblige us to see better to the defence . . . . It was not without some shame , and much uneasiness ...
Page 290
... ourselves , we shall see whether we are alone in our liking — whether others share in this strange sympathy , or whether it be some unique and monstrous moral obliquity in ourselves . We set to work , therefore , with all earnestness ...
... ourselves , we shall see whether we are alone in our liking — whether others share in this strange sympathy , or whether it be some unique and monstrous moral obliquity in ourselves . We set to work , therefore , with all earnestness ...
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... ourselves , external to our own species , we hold ourselves bound by no law . We say to them , vos non vobis , without any uneasy misgivings . We rob the bees of their honey , the cattle of their lives , the horse and the ass of their ...
... ourselves , external to our own species , we hold ourselves bound by no law . We say to them , vos non vobis , without any uneasy misgivings . We rob the bees of their honey , the cattle of their lives , the horse and the ass of their ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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