The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 4. köideF.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pages |
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... Knowledge The Loveliest Sight for Woman's Eyes Great Forgers : Chatterton , Walpole , and " Junius » DESCARTES , RENÉ 1596-1650 1352 The Fifth Meditation » — Of the Essence of Mate- rial Things ; and , Again , of God , -that He Exists ...
... Knowledge The Loveliest Sight for Woman's Eyes Great Forgers : Chatterton , Walpole , and " Junius » DESCARTES , RENÉ 1596-1650 1352 The Fifth Meditation » — Of the Essence of Mate- rial Things ; and , Again , of God , -that He Exists ...
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... knowledge of evil . For even as Dante himself approached the castle of Dis , which overlooks the deeper hells of flame , he had raised against him the Gorgon's head which petrifies with horror all who come too close to the knowledge of ...
... knowledge of evil . For even as Dante himself approached the castle of Dis , which overlooks the deeper hells of flame , he had raised against him the Gorgon's head which petrifies with horror all who come too close to the knowledge of ...
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... knowledge , which came to him in the fullness of his intellect- " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita » — he was compelled to explain to himself the world as he had come to see it . His explanation is only to be understood from the ...
... knowledge , which came to him in the fullness of his intellect- " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita » — he was compelled to explain to himself the world as he had come to see it . His explanation is only to be understood from the ...
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... knowledge of God is the only end of man's existence . He lived sick , passionate , and sad , suffering the evil not only of his own nature , but of the whole evil world around him . Yet seeing things " bare to the buff , " having no ...
... knowledge of God is the only end of man's existence . He lived sick , passionate , and sad , suffering the evil not only of his own nature , but of the whole evil world around him . Yet seeing things " bare to the buff , " having no ...
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... knowledge is vile through imperfec- tion . By distinction of the consequences , increase of desire is not in knowledge the cause of vileness . That it is perfect is evi- dent , for the Philosopher , in the sixth book of the " Ethics ...
... knowledge is vile through imperfec- tion . By distinction of the consequences , increase of desire is not in knowledge the cause of vileness . That it is perfect is evi- dent , for the Philosopher , in the sixth book of the " Ethics ...
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Page 1615 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 1490 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 1398 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 1305 - Farewell to hope and to tranquil dreams, and to the blessed consolations of sleep. For more than three years and a half I am summoned away from these.
Page 1376 - And the star was shining. He grew to be a man whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed with tears when the star opened once again. Said his sister's angel to the leader, "Is my brother come?" And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter.
Page 1450 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 1490 - What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write...
Page 1615 - ... which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught...
Page 1599 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 1616 - The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle. He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.