The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1Kaiser, 1900 - American essays |
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... once burnt may dread the fire as certainly as if the accident had happened a hundred times ; and there are many other instances in which the conviction may be produced in the same rapid man- ner . The natural tendency of the mind , in ...
... once burnt may dread the fire as certainly as if the accident had happened a hundred times ; and there are many other instances in which the conviction may be produced in the same rapid man- ner . The natural tendency of the mind , in ...
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... on these tendencies continuing to be uniform ; and should we in any instance be dis- appointed of the result which we wish to produce , we are able at once to detect the nature of some incidental cause JOHN ABERCROMBIE 9.
... on these tendencies continuing to be uniform ; and should we in any instance be dis- appointed of the result which we wish to produce , we are able at once to detect the nature of some incidental cause JOHN ABERCROMBIE 9.
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David Josiah Brewer. at once to detect the nature of some incidental cause by which the result has been prevented , and to obviate the effect of its interference . The consequence of this accurate knowledge of their relations is , that ...
David Josiah Brewer. at once to detect the nature of some incidental cause by which the result has been prevented , and to obviate the effect of its interference . The consequence of this accurate knowledge of their relations is , that ...
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... once held her captive , a slave to the conjugal hearth . The era of woman's emancipation has commenced . Yet it cannot be denied that the march of woman toward a larger and more legitimate social development has been far slower and more ...
... once held her captive , a slave to the conjugal hearth . The era of woman's emancipation has commenced . Yet it cannot be denied that the march of woman toward a larger and more legitimate social development has been far slower and more ...
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... once the greatest reward genius can receive , and the mode through which it operates to express that fellow - feeling for humanity which is its own essence . Everywhere in Addison's essays we see this good nature operating as the source ...
... once the greatest reward genius can receive , and the mode through which it operates to express that fellow - feeling for humanity which is its own essence . Everywhere in Addison's essays we see this good nature operating as the source ...
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Page 233 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 62 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 234 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Page 313 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Page 309 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Page 72 - Square: it is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love, by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege,' fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Page 336 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Page 389 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.