Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 4. köideFerd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... follow after riches , how far they live securely when they have piled them up , what their contentment is , how peace- fully they rest . What else daily endangers and destroys cities , countries , indi- vidual persons , so much as the ...
... follow after riches , how far they live securely when they have piled them up , what their contentment is , how peace- fully they rest . What else daily endangers and destroys cities , countries , indi- vidual persons , so much as the ...
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... follows the right path attains his end , and gains his rest . The man who follows the wrong path never attains it , but with much fatigue of mind and greedy eyes looks always before him . Wherefore , although this argument does not ...
... follows the right path attains his end , and gains his rest . The man who follows the wrong path never attains it , but with much fatigue of mind and greedy eyes looks always before him . Wherefore , although this argument does not ...
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... follows that the Mind which is upright in desire , and truthful in knowledge , is not disheartened at the loss of wealth ; as the text asserts at the end of that part . And by this the text intends to prove that riches are as a river ...
... follows that the Mind which is upright in desire , and truthful in knowledge , is not disheartened at the loss of wealth ; as the text asserts at the end of that part . And by this the text intends to prove that riches are as a river ...
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... follows then from this . " Finally it concludes , their error being evident , and it being therefore time to attend to the Truth : and it does this when it says , " Sound intellect reproves . " I say , then , " They will not have the ...
... follows then from this . " Finally it concludes , their error being evident , and it being therefore time to attend to the Truth : and it does this when it says , " Sound intellect reproves . " I say , then , " They will not have the ...
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... follows then from this . " Where it is to be known that if it is not possible for a peasant to become a Noble , or for a Noble son to be born of a humble father , as is advanced in their opinion , of two difficulties one must follow ...
... follows then from this . " Where it is to be known that if it is not possible for a peasant to become a Noble , or for a Noble son to be born of a humble father , as is advanced in their opinion , of two difficulties one must follow ...
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Page 1455 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 1491 - 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 1402 - 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 1307 - OPIUM As when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
Page 1619 - 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 1452 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Page 1452 - 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 1493 - 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 1603 - Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Page 1620 - 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.