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Pagina 4
... present in Hebrew literature ( e.g. , II Sam . xiv ) , but during the Post - Exilic period , and especially after the Greek influence had begun to fashion thought , it found its most remarkable expression and became a literary form . Mr ...
... present in Hebrew literature ( e.g. , II Sam . xiv ) , but during the Post - Exilic period , and especially after the Greek influence had begun to fashion thought , it found its most remarkable expression and became a literary form . Mr ...
Pagina 12
... present us with the substance of his own most private thoughts , his subtlest emotions , his most endearing follies , in the assured faith that we cannot be less interested in himself than he is . The influence of Montaigne on English ...
... present us with the substance of his own most private thoughts , his subtlest emotions , his most endearing follies , in the assured faith that we cannot be less interested in himself than he is . The influence of Montaigne on English ...
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... present purpose if we observe that no existing form of literature exhibits so much flexibility or allows so wide a field for the display of idiosyncrasy . The essay may obey its earliest impulse and be sermonic , as is dis- tinctly the ...
... present purpose if we observe that no existing form of literature exhibits so much flexibility or allows so wide a field for the display of idiosyncrasy . The essay may obey its earliest impulse and be sermonic , as is dis- tinctly the ...
Pagina 58
... present moment to last forever . We would be as we are , and would have the world remain just as it is , to please us . " The present eye catches the present object " -to have and to hold while it may ; and abhors , on any terms , to ...
... present moment to last forever . We would be as we are , and would have the world remain just as it is , to please us . " The present eye catches the present object " -to have and to hold while it may ; and abhors , on any terms , to ...
Pagina 59
... present mode of life , with all its advantages and disadvantages , for any other that could be substituted for it . No man would , I think , exchange his existence with any other man , however fortunate . We had as lief not be , as not ...
... present mode of life , with all its advantages and disadvantages , for any other that could be substituted for it . No man would , I think , exchange his existence with any other man , however fortunate . We had as lief not be , as not ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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