Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, with Indexes: Authors 544, Subjects 571, Quotations 8810Gale Research Company, 1876 - 764 páginas |
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... WASHINGTON IRVING . As daily experience makes it evident that misfortunes are unavoidably incident to human life , that calamity will neither be repelled by fortitude , nor escaped by flight ; neither awed by greatness , nor eluded by ...
... WASHINGTON IRVING . As daily experience makes it evident that misfortunes are unavoidably incident to human life , that calamity will neither be repelled by fortitude , nor escaped by flight ; neither awed by greatness , nor eluded by ...
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... WASHINGTON IRVING . Young people who have been habitually gratified in all their desires will not only more indulge in capricious desires , but will infallibly take it more amiss when the feelings or happiness of others require that ...
... WASHINGTON IRVING . Young people who have been habitually gratified in all their desires will not only more indulge in capricious desires , but will infallibly take it more amiss when the feelings or happiness of others require that ...
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... WASHINGTON IRVING . It was , perhaps , ordained by Providence , to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause , by his retirement or death , any chasm in the world . And ...
... WASHINGTON IRVING . It was , perhaps , ordained by Providence , to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause , by his retirement or death , any chasm in the world . And ...
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... WASHINGTON IRVING . England , after Germany , is in literature the only nation whose genius comes from the north without having passed through Greece or Rome . She has the superiority of originality . This originality has been a little ...
... WASHINGTON IRVING . England , after Germany , is in literature the only nation whose genius comes from the north without having passed through Greece or Rome . She has the superiority of originality . This originality has been a little ...
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... WASHINGTON IRVING . Enthusiasm , though founded neither on reason nor revelation , but rising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain , works more powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either or both together ...
... WASHINGTON IRVING . Enthusiasm , though founded neither on reason nor revelation , but rising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain , works more powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either or both together ...
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actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers