The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin |
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... heart of Sir Thomas Browne beating beneath his sables . He sputtered out puns among his friends . from the saddest heart . He laughed that he might not weep . Misery , which could not make him a cynic nor a misanthrope , made him a ...
... heart of Sir Thomas Browne beating beneath his sables . He sputtered out puns among his friends . from the saddest heart . He laughed that he might not weep . Misery , which could not make him a cynic nor a misanthrope , made him a ...
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... heart , but also into a heart well fortified , if watch be not well kept . It is a poor saying of Epicurus ; " Satis See Matt . xiii . 25 . Deity . Nay , even that school which is most FRANCIS BACON . 15 Of love, De piis et probis, 39.
... heart , but also into a heart well fortified , if watch be not well kept . It is a poor saying of Epicurus ; " Satis See Matt . xiii . 25 . Deity . Nay , even that school which is most FRANCIS BACON . 15 Of love, De piis et probis, 39.
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... heart is no island cut off from other lands , but a continent that joins to them . If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others , it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm ...
... heart is no island cut off from other lands , but a continent that joins to them . If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others , it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm ...
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... heart , There is no God : " * it is not said , " The fool hath thought in his heart . " So as he rather saith it by rote to himself , as that he would have , than that he can thoroughly believe it , or be persuaded of it . For none deny ...
... heart , There is no God : " * it is not said , " The fool hath thought in his heart . " So as he rather saith it by rote to himself , as that he would have , than that he can thoroughly believe it , or be persuaded of it . For none deny ...
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... heart but a true friend , to whom you may impart griefs , joys , fears , hopes , suspicions , counsels , and whatsoever lieth upon the heart , to oppress it , in a kind of civil shrift or confession . It is a strange thing to observe ...
... heart but a true friend , to whom you may impart griefs , joys , fears , hopes , suspicions , counsels , and whatsoever lieth upon the heart , to oppress it , in a kind of civil shrift or confession . It is a strange thing to observe ...
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