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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... king turned schoolmaster , do we feel any- thing towards him but contempt ? Could Vandyke have made a picture of him , swaying a ferula for a sceptre , which would have affected our minds with the same heroic pity , the same com ...
... king turned schoolmaster , do we feel any- thing towards him but contempt ? Could Vandyke have made a picture of him , swaying a ferula for a sceptre , which would have affected our minds with the same heroic pity , the same com ...
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... King Cophetua woos the beggar maid ? « Pauperism , " " pauper , " " poor man , " are expressions of pity , but pity alloyed with contempt . No one properly contemns a beg- gar . Poverty is a comparative thing , and each degree of it is ...
... King Cophetua woos the beggar maid ? « Pauperism , " " pauper , " " poor man , " are expressions of pity , but pity alloyed with contempt . No one properly contemns a beg- gar . Poverty is a comparative thing , and each degree of it is ...
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... reflect noth- ing at all about the matter , nor understand anything in it be- yond cake and orange . But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler CHARLES LAMB 2467 New Year's.
... reflect noth- ing at all about the matter , nor understand anything in it be- yond cake and orange . But the birth of a New Year is of an interest too wide to be pretermitted by king or cobbler CHARLES LAMB 2467 New Year's.
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... king or cobbler . No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference . It is that from which all date their time , and count upon what is left . It is the nativity of our common Adam . - Of all sound of all bells- ( bells , the ...
... king or cobbler . No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference . It is that from which all date their time , and count upon what is left . It is the nativity of our common Adam . - Of all sound of all bells- ( bells , the ...
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... kings and emperors in death , " who in his lifetime never greatly coveted the society of such bedfellows ? -or , forsooth , that " so shall the fairest face appear ? " why , to comfort me , must Alice W - n be a gob- lin ? More than all ...
... kings and emperors in death , " who in his lifetime never greatly coveted the society of such bedfellows ? -or , forsooth , that " so shall the fairest face appear ? " why , to comfort me , must Alice W - n be a gob- lin ? More than all ...
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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...