The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred and Twenty-five AuthorsRobert Maynard Leonard Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920 - 743 sivua |
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Sivu 88
... affections and confidence of a high - minded people ; this was to understand human nature . A danger to avert a danger ; a present incon- venience and suffering to prevent a foreseen future and a worse calamity ; these are the motives ...
... affections and confidence of a high - minded people ; this was to understand human nature . A danger to avert a danger ; a present incon- venience and suffering to prevent a foreseen future and a worse calamity ; these are the motives ...
Sivu 154
... affections of my soul gave me a secret bent of aversion from them , as some plants are said to turn away from others by an antipathy imperceptible to themselves and inscrutable to man's understanding . ... I was even then acquainted ...
... affections of my soul gave me a secret bent of aversion from them , as some plants are said to turn away from others by an antipathy imperceptible to themselves and inscrutable to man's understanding . ... I was even then acquainted ...
Sivu 161
... affection , and the error it had occasioned . In April last , I came to London with three pounds , and flattered myself this would be sufficient to supply me with the common necessaries of life , till my abilities should procure me more ...
... affection , and the error it had occasioned . In April last , I came to London with three pounds , and flattered myself this would be sufficient to supply me with the common necessaries of life , till my abilities should procure me more ...
Sivu 172
... affection in nourishing others ' minds as pelicans in feeding their young , which is at the expense of the very substance of life . ' Tis then apparent they proceed by the instigation of fame or conscience ; and I believe many are ...
... affection in nourishing others ' minds as pelicans in feeding their young , which is at the expense of the very substance of life . ' Tis then apparent they proceed by the instigation of fame or conscience ; and I believe many are ...
Sivu 191
... affection to it ) will be unto us in the next life . The want of knowledge in our first mother , which exposed her to be easily deceived by the serpent's cunning , was the root of all our ensuing misery and woe . It is true ( which we ...
... affection to it ) will be unto us in the next life . The want of knowledge in our first mother , which exposed her to be easily deceived by the serpent's cunning , was the root of all our ensuing misery and woe . It is true ( which we ...
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