Essays Old and NewMargaret M. Bryant F.S. Crofts & Company, 1940 - 417 páginas |
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... never borne me . I am , I think , rather delicately than copiously provided with those conduits ; and I feel no disposition to envy the mule for his plenty , or the mole for her exactness , in those ingenious labyrinthine inlets - those ...
... never borne me . I am , I think , rather delicately than copiously provided with those conduits ; and I feel no disposition to envy the mule for his plenty , or the mole for her exactness , in those ingenious labyrinthine inlets - those ...
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... never rests , which has never attained , which is never perfect . Its law is progress . A point which yesterday was in- visible is its goal today , and will be its starting post tomorrow . " Great and various as the powers of Bacon were ...
... never rests , which has never attained , which is never perfect . Its law is progress . A point which yesterday was in- visible is its goal today , and will be its starting post tomorrow . " Great and various as the powers of Bacon were ...
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... never can make out how it is that a knight - errant does not expect to be paid for his trouble , but a peddler - errant always does ; that people are willing to take hard knocks for nothing , but never to sell ribands cheap ; that they ...
... never can make out how it is that a knight - errant does not expect to be paid for his trouble , but a peddler - errant always does ; that people are willing to take hard knocks for nothing , but never to sell ribands cheap ; that they ...
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 15331592 | 2 |
Francis Bacon | 9 |
Hamlet William Hazlitt 57 | 11 |
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