The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pagina's |
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Pagina 838
... Complete . From the New Monthly Magazine 1832 . THE CHARACTERISTICS HE healthy know not of their health , but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism ; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it . We may say it holds ...
... Complete . From the New Monthly Magazine 1832 . THE CHARACTERISTICS HE healthy know not of their health , but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism ; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it . We may say it holds ...
Pagina 848
... Complete . From Fraser's Magazine 1832 . I ' CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY IF I believed that Mammonism with its adjuncts was to continue henceforth the one serious principle of our existence , I should reckon it idle to solicit remedial ...
... Complete . From Fraser's Magazine 1832 . I ' CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY IF I believed that Mammonism with its adjuncts was to continue henceforth the one serious principle of our existence , I should reckon it idle to solicit remedial ...
Pagina 854
... Complete . From " Past and Present . » B THE CHARACTER OF ROBERT BURNS URNS was born poor ; and born also to continue poor , for he would not endeavor to be otherwise : this it had been well could he have once for all admitted and ...
... Complete . From " Past and Present . » B THE CHARACTER OF ROBERT BURNS URNS was born poor ; and born also to continue poor , for he would not endeavor to be otherwise : this it had been well could he have once for all admitted and ...
Pagina 860
... complete and self- sufficing is this Shakespeare , had the Warwickshire Squire not prosecuted him for deer - stealing , we had perhaps never heard of him as a Poet ! The woods and skies , the rustic Life of Man in Stratford there , had ...
... complete and self- sufficing is this Shakespeare , had the Warwickshire Squire not prosecuted him for deer - stealing , we had perhaps never heard of him as a Poet ! The woods and skies , the rustic Life of Man in Stratford there , had ...
Pagina 868
... complete the pomp of it , " as Augereau said , " nothing but the half - million of men who had died to put an end to all that ! Cromwell's Inauguration was by the Sword and Bible ; what we must call a genuinely true one . Sword and ...
... complete the pomp of it , " as Augereau said , " nothing but the half - million of men who had died to put an end to all that ! Cromwell's Inauguration was by the Sword and Bible ; what we must call a genuinely true one . Sword and ...
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Pagina 1096 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more. If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover. But the spite on 't is, no praise Is due at all to me: Love with me had made no stays.
Pagina 1033 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Pagina 1138 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Pagina 1037 - D'avenant K* Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: Now Published Out of the Authors Originall Copies. London: Printed by TN for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange. 1673.
Pagina 1064 - Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail beauty must decay...
Pagina 1033 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots : your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, — two dishes, but to one table : that's the end.
Pagina 1024 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted anything, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion, and moral honesty; yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs, without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection, and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.
Pagina 1163 - ... of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Pagina 1033 - A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.] KING. What dost thou mean by this? HAM. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. KING. Where is Polonius? HAM. In heaven; send thither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i
Pagina 1056 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.