Essays Old and NewMargaret M. Bryant F.S. Crofts & Company, 1940 - 417 páginas |
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... once cleaved ( like a burr ) to some great man's coat , he resolves not to be shaken off with any small in- dignities ; and finding his hold thoroughly fast , casts how to insinuate yet nearer ; and therefore he is busy and servile in ...
... once cleaved ( like a burr ) to some great man's coat , he resolves not to be shaken off with any small in- dignities ; and finding his hold thoroughly fast , casts how to insinuate yet nearer ; and therefore he is busy and servile in ...
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... once . Such writers have merely verbal imaginations , that retain nothing but words . Or their puny thoughts have dragon wings all green and gold . They soar far above the vulgar failing of the sermo humi abrepens 22 - their most ...
... once . Such writers have merely verbal imaginations , that retain nothing but words . Or their puny thoughts have dragon wings all green and gold . They soar far above the vulgar failing of the sermo humi abrepens 22 - their most ...
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... once domesticated . But what we most admire is the vast capacity of that intellect which , without effort , takes in at once all the domains of science , all the past , the present , and the future , all the errors of two thousand years ...
... once domesticated . But what we most admire is the vast capacity of that intellect which , without effort , takes in at once all the domains of science , all the past , the present , and the future , all the errors of two thousand years ...
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 15331592 | 2 |
Francis Bacon | 9 |
Hamlet William Hazlitt 57 | 11 |
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