The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pages |
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... nights at St. James's coffeehouse , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise very well known at the Grecian , the Cocoa Tree , and in the ...
... nights at St. James's coffeehouse , and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner room , as one who comes there to hear and improve . My face is likewise very well known at the Grecian , the Cocoa Tree , and in the ...
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... night , for the inspection of all such papers as may contribute to the advancement of the public weal . Complete . From the Spectator of March 1st , 1711 . I THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit , tutus caret ...
... night , for the inspection of all such papers as may contribute to the advancement of the public weal . Complete . From the Spectator of March 1st , 1711 . I THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit , tutus caret ...
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... night , whatever deep impressions it may make in his mind , they are apt to vanish as soon as the day breaks about him . The light and noise of the day , which are perpetu- ally soliciting his senses , and calling off his attention ...
... night , whatever deep impressions it may make in his mind , they are apt to vanish as soon as the day breaks about him . The light and noise of the day , which are perpetu- ally soliciting his senses , and calling off his attention ...
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... night would be more afflicting to her than the death of a child . She pities all the valuable part of her own sex , and calls every woman of a prudent , modest , retired life a poor - spirited , unpolished creature . What a ...
... night would be more afflicting to her than the death of a child . She pities all the valuable part of her own sex , and calls every woman of a prudent , modest , retired life a poor - spirited , unpolished creature . What a ...
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... night sat very late in company with this select body of friends , who entertained me with several remarks which they and others had made upon these my speculations , as also with the various success which they had met with among their ...
... night sat very late in company with this select body of friends , who entertained me with several remarks which they and others had made upon these my speculations , as also with the various success which they had met with among their ...
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Page 231 - 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 308 - 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 356 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.
Page 321 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would; neither will they when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow: like old townsmen that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Page 54 - I •wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the Genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The islands...
Page 309 - 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 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 97 - 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 70 - 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 332 - 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 nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...