A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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... less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther , and affirm most truly , that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends , without which the world is but a wilderness ; and , even in this scene also of solitude , whosoever ...
... less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther , and affirm most truly , that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends , without which the world is but a wilderness ; and , even in this scene also of solitude , whosoever ...
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... less faithfully counselled - for it is a rare thing , extol them ; a man cannot sometimes except it be from a perfect and entire brook to supplicate or beg ; and a num- friend , to have counsel given , but such as ber of the like : but ...
... less faithfully counselled - for it is a rare thing , extol them ; a man cannot sometimes except it be from a perfect and entire brook to supplicate or beg ; and a num- friend , to have counsel given , but such as ber of the like : but ...
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... less , than by many of the un- learned . What is it but a child - game that many logicians , rhetoricians , gram- marians , yea , metaphysicians , and other philosophers , in their eagerest studies and disputes , are exercised in ? Of ...
... less , than by many of the un- learned . What is it but a child - game that many logicians , rhetoricians , gram- marians , yea , metaphysicians , and other philosophers , in their eagerest studies and disputes , are exercised in ? Of ...
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... less suspected ; but the best is , it is a pleasure so fenced from the slothful with thorny labour of hard and long studies , that laziness saveth more from it than grace and holy wisdom doth . But doubt- less fancy and the natural ...
... less suspected ; but the best is , it is a pleasure so fenced from the slothful with thorny labour of hard and long studies , that laziness saveth more from it than grace and holy wisdom doth . But doubt- less fancy and the natural ...
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... less of earth from heaven , than I do now ? It is unlike that my capacity will be so little and if it were , it is unlike that Christ and all the angels will be so strange to me , as to give me no notice of things that so much concern ...
... less of earth from heaven , than I do now ? It is unlike that my capacity will be so little and if it were , it is unlike that Christ and all the angels will be so strange to me , as to give me no notice of things that so much concern ...
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