The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the un- married or childless men : which both in affection and ...
... fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the un- married or childless men : which both in affection and ...
Pàgina 14
... fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive , is com- monly envious : for to know much of other men's matters cannot be , because all that ado may con- cern his own estate : therefore it must needs be , that he taketh a kind of play ...
... fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive , is com- monly envious : for to know much of other men's matters cannot be , because all that ado may con- cern his own estate : therefore it must needs be , that he taketh a kind of play ...
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... fortunes in an insolent and proud manner : being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either ... fortune , and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth , and doth but teach others to envy him . Lastly , to ...
... fortunes in an insolent and proud manner : being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either ... fortune , and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth , and doth but teach others to envy him . Lastly , to ...
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... Fortune is like the market , where many times , if you can stay a little , the price will fall . And again , it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer , which at first offereth the commodity at full , then con- sumeth part and part , and ...
... Fortune is like the market , where many times , if you can stay a little , the price will fall . And again , it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer , which at first offereth the commodity at full , then con- sumeth part and part , and ...
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... fortune . But it is a desperate evil in a servant to a prince , or a citizen in a republic . For whatsoever affairs It is a way that some men have , to glance and dart at others , by justifying themselves by nega - pass such a man's ...
... fortune . But it is a desperate evil in a servant to a prince , or a citizen in a republic . For whatsoever affairs It is a way that some men have , to glance and dart at others , by justifying themselves by nega - pass such a man's ...
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