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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... Observations on Shy People Readers and Writers MCCARTHY , JUSTIN 1830- 2711 The Last of the Napoleons MACAULAY , THOMAS BABINGTON , BARON 1800-1859 2717 John Bunyan and the " Pilgrim's Progress " The Impeachment of Warren Hastings viii ...
... Observations on Shy People Readers and Writers MCCARTHY , JUSTIN 1830- 2711 The Last of the Napoleons MACAULAY , THOMAS BABINGTON , BARON 1800-1859 2717 John Bunyan and the " Pilgrim's Progress " The Impeachment of Warren Hastings viii ...
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... observed that Ho - ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever . Nothing but fires from this time forward . Some would break out in broad day , others in the nighttime . As often as the sow farrowed , so sure was the house ...
... observed that Ho - ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever . Nothing but fires from this time forward . Some would break out in broad day , others in the nighttime . As often as the sow farrowed , so sure was the house ...
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... observed to be on fire . The thing took wing , and now there was nothing . to be seen but fires in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The insurance offices one and all shut up shop . People ...
... observed to be on fire . The thing took wing , and now there was nothing . to be seen but fires in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The insurance offices one and all shut up shop . People ...
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... observed when I shall see the traveler for some rich tradesman part with his admired box coat , to spread it over the defenseless shoulders of the poor woman who is passing to her parish on the roof of the same stagecoach with him ...
... observed when I shall see the traveler for some rich tradesman part with his admired box coat , to spread it over the defenseless shoulders of the poor woman who is passing to her parish on the roof of the same stagecoach with him ...
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... observations , that money is not health ; riches cannot purchase everything ; the metaphor which makes gold to be mere muck , with the morality which traces fine clothing to the sheep's back , and denounces pearl as the unhand- some ...
... observations , that money is not health ; riches cannot purchase everything ; the metaphor which makes gold to be mere muck , with the morality which traces fine clothing to the sheep's back , and denounces pearl as the unhand- some ...
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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...