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... pleasure or inspiration relatively few . Institutions seem to prefer essays and writers that are concerned with the immediate world about them before the work of the " great dead . " And they may , of course , be right . It would almost ...
... pleasure or inspiration relatively few . Institutions seem to prefer essays and writers that are concerned with the immediate world about them before the work of the " great dead . " And they may , of course , be right . It would almost ...
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... pleasure in solitude , but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation , such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen , as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman ...
... pleasure in solitude , but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation , such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen , as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman ...
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... pleasure of the eye . Certainly , virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed . For prosperity doth best dis- cover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue . 1 OF TRUTH HAT is truth ? " said ...
... pleasure of the eye . Certainly , virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed . For prosperity doth best dis- cover vice ; but adversity doth best discover virtue . 1 OF TRUTH HAT is truth ? " said ...
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... pleasure as with poets , nor for advantage as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell , this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so ...
... pleasure as with poets , nor for advantage as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell , this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so ...
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... pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adven- tures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
... pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adven- tures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the ...
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