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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... look , to remove every want , to quench all thirst , to bring satisfaction and suffi- ciency ; and this they do to every man in the beginning , con- firming promise to a certain point in their increase , and then , as soon as their pile ...
... look , to remove every want , to quench all thirst , to bring satisfaction and suffi- ciency ; and this they do to every man in the beginning , con- firming promise to a certain point in their increase , and then , as soon as their pile ...
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... looks always before him . Wherefore , although this argument does not entirely reply to the question asked above , at least it opens the way to the reply , which causes us to see that each desire of ours does not proceed in its ...
... looks always before him . Wherefore , although this argument does not entirely reply to the question asked above , at least it opens the way to the reply , which causes us to see that each desire of ours does not proceed in its ...
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... Look upon me , my en- chanting one ! I am thy servant . Yesterday , at the dawn of day , I sent to thee the messenger . snake bit me to the heart , the snake of thy black locks . Last night , etc. The I will charm the snake with my ...
... Look upon me , my en- chanting one ! I am thy servant . Yesterday , at the dawn of day , I sent to thee the messenger . snake bit me to the heart , the snake of thy black locks . Last night , etc. The I will charm the snake with my ...
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... look from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in groups , subordinate to groups , in the manner which we everywhere be- hold — namely , varieties of the same ...
... look from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in groups , subordinate to groups , in the manner which we everywhere be- hold — namely , varieties of the same ...
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... that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken , and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world . Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN 1269.
... that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken , and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world . Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN 1269.
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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.