Representative EssaysGeorge Haven Putnam G. P. Putnam's sons, 1908 - 395 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 63
Seite
... present volume has been prepared with a view to bringing together representative essays by nineteenth - century masters of the essay form . It voices the opinions of different schools of thought , and each of its selections may fairly ...
... present volume has been prepared with a view to bringing together representative essays by nineteenth - century masters of the essay form . It voices the opinions of different schools of thought , and each of its selections may fairly ...
Seite 4
... present day , would be deemed barbarous ; but I shall endeavor , as far as I am able , to render it in modern parlance . It began with railings about the neglect of the world — about merit being suffered to languish in obscurity , and ...
... present day , would be deemed barbarous ; but I shall endeavor , as far as I am able , to render it in modern parlance . It began with railings about the neglect of the world — about merit being suffered to languish in obscurity , and ...
Seite 5
... present in existence ; and those few owe their longevity to being immured like yourself in old libraries ; which , suffer me to add , instead of likening to harems , you might more properly and gratefully have compared to those ...
... present in existence ; and those few owe their longevity to being immured like yourself in old libraries ; which , suffer me to add , instead of likening to harems , you might more properly and gratefully have compared to those ...
Seite 11
... present day , reads scarcely anything but reviews ; and before long a man of erudition will be little better than a mere walking catalogue . " " My very good sir , " said the little quarto , yawning most drearily in my face , " excuse ...
... present day , reads scarcely anything but reviews ; and before long a man of erudition will be little better than a mere walking catalogue . " " My very good sir , " said the little quarto , yawning most drearily in my face , " excuse ...
Seite 19
... present not long since at a party of North Britons , where a son of Burns was expected ; and happened to drop a silly ex- pression ( in my South British way ) , that I wished it were the father instead of the son when four of them ...
... present not long since at a party of North Britons , where a son of Burns was expected ; and happened to drop a silly ex- pression ( in my South British way ) , that I wished it were the father instead of the son when four of them ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action adoption Albanian American Aryan assimilated called century character circumstances civilization community of blood Constitution conversation Crown culture Dacia distinct doctrine effect England English Europe fact feeling force Frederic Harrison French G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Gaul give Goethe Greek Herodotus historian House of Commons human idea influence intellectual interest kind kindred lands language laws learned less literature living look Madame de Staël Magyar mankind manner mind modern moral nation nature never pass perfection perhaps person Philistines philosophy Plutarch political practical present principle Protestantism purposes Quaker race reason relation religion religious Roman rule scientific seems sense Shakespeare Slav Slavonic social society soul Sovereign speak speech spirit sweetness and light Tacitus talk teaching Teutonic theory things thought Thucydides tion tongue true truth Turk whole words writers Xenophon