Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Page 2458
... earth - born , an Antæus , and to suck in fresh vigor from the soil which he neighbored . He was a grand fragment ; as good as an Elgin marble . The nature which should have recruited his left legs and thighs was not lost , but only ...
... earth - born , an Antæus , and to suck in fresh vigor from the soil which he neighbored . He was a grand fragment ; as good as an Elgin marble . The nature which should have recruited his left legs and thighs was not lost , but only ...
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... earth ; the face of town and country ; the unspeakable rural solitudes , and the sweet security of streets . I would set up my tabernacle here . I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I , and my friends : to be ...
... earth ; the face of town and country ; the unspeakable rural solitudes , and the sweet security of streets . I would set up my tabernacle here . I am content to stand still at the age to which I am arrived ; I , and my friends : to be ...
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... earth beside this consid- eration should have induced me to pursue a measure in appear- ance so unfriendly . You must grow more temperate really must . - · · you Steele Mr. Addison , you did not speak so gravely and so firmly when we ...
... earth beside this consid- eration should have induced me to pursue a measure in appear- ance so unfriendly . You must grow more temperate really must . - · · you Steele Mr. Addison , you did not speak so gravely and so firmly when we ...
Page 2501
... earth- quakes and of crashing worlds . Even our furtive glances toward each other's plates were presently awed down to a sullen gazing of each into his own ; the silence increased , the noises became intolerable , a cold sweat broke out ...
... earth- quakes and of crashing worlds . Even our furtive glances toward each other's plates were presently awed down to a sullen gazing of each into his own ; the silence increased , the noises became intolerable , a cold sweat broke out ...
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... earth who is not daily influenced by physiognomy ; not a man who cannot figure to himself a countenance which shall to him appear ex- ceedingly lovely , or exceedingly hateful ; not a man who does not , more or less , the first time he ...
... earth who is not daily influenced by physiognomy ; not a man who cannot figure to himself a countenance which shall to him appear ex- ceedingly lovely , or exceedingly hateful ; not a man who does not , more or less , the first time he ...
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Page 2677 - 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 2572 - 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 2465 - His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 2593 - 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 2463 - The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision ; and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money. In a few days his Lordship's town house was observed to be on fire.
Page 2594 - These two, I say, viz., external material things as the objects of sensation, and the operations of our own minds within as the objects of reflection, are, to me, the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.
Page 2594 - 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 2728 - Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
Page 2462 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling!
Page 2592 - ... 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...