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, Том 7Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I myself , and not an- other - would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present — and ...
... thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I myself , and not an- other - would eat her nice cake - and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present — and ...
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... thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me . Not childhood alone , but the young man till thirty , never feels practically that he is mor- tal . He knows it indeed , and , if need were , he could preach a homily on the fragility of ...
... thought of it as a reckoning that concerned me . Not childhood alone , but the young man till thirty , never feels practically that he is mor- tal . He knows it indeed , and , if need were , he could preach a homily on the fragility of ...
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... thoughts of death . All things allied to the insubstantial wait upon that master feeling ; cold , numbness , dreams , perplexity ; moonlight itself , with its shadowy and spectral appearances , that cold ghost of the sun , or Phoebus's ...
... thoughts of death . All things allied to the insubstantial wait upon that master feeling ; cold , numbness , dreams , perplexity ; moonlight itself , with its shadowy and spectral appearances , that cold ghost of the sun , or Phoebus's ...
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... thought in their way notable adepts in this refinement , shall act upon it in places where they are not known , or think themselves not observed when I shall see the traveler for some rich tradesman part with his admired box coat , to ...
... thought in their way notable adepts in this refinement , shall act upon it in places where they are not known , or think themselves not observed when I shall see the traveler for some rich tradesman part with his admired box coat , to ...
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... thought to herself , " As I am Miss Susan Winstanley , and a young lady - a reputed beauty , and known to be a for- tune , I can have my choice of the finest speeches from the mouth of this very fine gentleman who is courting me - but ...
... thought to herself , " As I am Miss Susan Winstanley , and a young lady - a reputed beauty , and known to be a for- tune , I can have my choice of the finest speeches from the mouth of this very fine gentleman who is courting me - but ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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!
Сторінка 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...