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, Volumen7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... consider , he is a weakling — a flower . - Complete . From the London Magazine , September , 1822 . E NEW YEAR'S EVE VERY man hath two birthdays : two days at least , in every year , which set him upon revolving the lapse of time , as ...
... consider , he is a weakling — a flower . - Complete . From the London Magazine , September , 1822 . E NEW YEAR'S EVE VERY man hath two birthdays : two days at least , in every year , which set him upon revolving the lapse of time , as ...
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... consider that tears are given us by nature as a remedy to affliction , although , like other remedies , they should come to our relief in private . Philosophy , we may be told , would prevent the tears , by turning away the sources of ...
... consider that tears are given us by nature as a remedy to affliction , although , like other remedies , they should come to our relief in private . Philosophy , we may be told , would prevent the tears , by turning away the sources of ...
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... consider it quite practicable to illuminate most brightly entire cities with lamps devoid of flame or fire , and to which the air has no access . We produce , artificially , ultramarine , one of the most precious minerals ; and we ...
... consider it quite practicable to illuminate most brightly entire cities with lamps devoid of flame or fire , and to which the air has no access . We produce , artificially , ultramarine , one of the most precious minerals ; and we ...
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... consider events for their meaning as a part of a connected whole , rather than for their own sake as facts appealing to patriotic or individual vanity , he shows in the preface to his " History . " " To the following considerations ...
... consider events for their meaning as a part of a connected whole , rather than for their own sake as facts appealing to patriotic or individual vanity , he shows in the preface to his " History . " " To the following considerations ...
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... consider its original as sacred , and to attribute it to the operations of the gods , surely the Roman people , who rank so high in military fame , may well expect that , while they choose to represent Mars as their own parent , and ...
... consider its original as sacred , and to attribute it to the operations of the gods , surely the Roman people , who rank so high in military fame , may well expect that , while they choose to represent Mars as their own parent , and ...
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Página 2677 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Página 2572 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Página 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Página 2593 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Página 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Página 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Página 2594 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Página 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Página 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Página 2592 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...