The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7F. P. Kaiser, 1900 |
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Page 2459
... once , whom it would not have shamed to have sat down at the cripples ' feast , and to have thrown in his benediction , aye , and his mite too , for a companionable symbol . " Age , thou hast lost thy breed . " Half of these stories ...
... once , whom it would not have shamed to have sat down at the cripples ' feast , and to have thrown in his benediction , aye , and his mite too , for a companionable symbol . " Age , thou hast lost thy breed . " Half of these stories ...
Page 2468
... once paid so dear . I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life reversed . I would no more alter them than the incidents of some well- contrived novel . Methinks it is better that I should have pined ...
... once paid so dear . I would scarce now have any of those untoward accidents and events of my life reversed . I would no more alter them than the incidents of some well- contrived novel . Methinks it is better that I should have pined ...
Page 2478
... once come out with some- thing so whimsical , yet so pertinent - so brazen in its pretensions , yet so impossible to be denied - so exquisitely good , and so de- plorably bad at the same time - that it has proved a Robin Hood's shot ...
... once come out with some- thing so whimsical , yet so pertinent - so brazen in its pretensions , yet so impossible to be denied - so exquisitely good , and so de- plorably bad at the same time - that it has proved a Robin Hood's shot ...
Page 2482
... once thought life to be something , but it has unaccountably fallen from us before its time . Therefore we choose to dally with visions . The sun has no purposes of ours to light us to . Why should we get up ? Complete . Number XI . WR ...
... once thought life to be something , but it has unaccountably fallen from us before its time . Therefore we choose to dally with visions . The sun has no purposes of ours to light us to . Why should we get up ? Complete . Number XI . WR ...
Page 2487
... Once , it is true , you did it at your house ; the only time I ever had an invitation to dine in it . The Countess was never fond of the wit that smells of wine ; her husband could once endure it . Addison We could talk more freely ...
... Once , it is true , you did it at your house ; the only time I ever had an invitation to dine in it . The Countess was never fond of the wit that smells of wine ; her husband could once endure it . Addison We could talk more freely ...
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Page 2676 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 2568 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper,* void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience...
Page 2589 - Firstly, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 2590 - But as I call the other sensation, so I call this, REFLECTION, the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself!
Page 2466 - Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fishes, and society, and the cheerful glass, and candlelight and fire-side conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself- — do these things go out with life...
Page 2730 - Fox, generally so regardless of his appearance, had paid to the illustrious tribunal the compliment of wearing a bag and sword. Pitt had refused to be one of the conductors of the impeachment; and his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact, and his urbanity. But, in spite of the absence...
Page 2588 - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...
Page 2460 - ... most useful, and seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous an experiment as setting houses on fire (especially in these days) could be assigned in favor of any culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps obsoniorum.
Page 2570 - Thirdly, In the state of nature there often wants power to back and support the sentence when right, and to give it due execution. They who by any injustice offended, will seldom fail where they are able by force to make good their injustice. Such resistance many times makes the punishment dangerous, and frequently destructive to those who attempt it.
Page 2754 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.