The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 pagina's |
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Pagina 1662
... nation ( as we may say ) of vegetables with garments suita- ble to their naked and exposed bodies , temper , and climate . Thus some are clad with a coarser [ skin ] , and resist all extremes of weather ; others with more tender and ...
... nation ( as we may say ) of vegetables with garments suita- ble to their naked and exposed bodies , temper , and climate . Thus some are clad with a coarser [ skin ] , and resist all extremes of weather ; others with more tender and ...
Pagina 1673
... nation is , for the pen is more the mind's interpreter than speech . Yet , as it regards society , writings which are scandalous are worse . They are a kind of barbarousness in death unto the dead ; for printing gives perpetuity and ...
... nation is , for the pen is more the mind's interpreter than speech . Yet , as it regards society , writings which are scandalous are worse . They are a kind of barbarousness in death unto the dead ; for printing gives perpetuity and ...
Pagina 1707
... nations so very remote were unknown one to an- other . It is she that makes people in Japan conclude , as in France , that two and two make four ; nor is it apprehended that any nation shall ever change their opinion about it . It is ...
... nations so very remote were unknown one to an- other . It is she that makes people in Japan conclude , as in France , that two and two make four ; nor is it apprehended that any nation shall ever change their opinion about it . It is ...
Pagina 1721
... race is made cap- able of the most unlimited communication with itself , one nation , one quarter of the globe must await the other , on their common path , and each must bring its centuries of apparent JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE 1721.
... race is made cap- able of the most unlimited communication with itself , one nation , one quarter of the globe must await the other , on their common path , and each must bring its centuries of apparent JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE 1721.
Pagina 1761
... nations ignorant of the use of the mill , and which employ fifty laborers to crush the grain which is ground among us by a single machine . Everywhere the superfluity of agents is frightful ; in all commercial operations the number is ...
... nations ignorant of the use of the mill , and which employ fifty laborers to crush the grain which is ground among us by a single machine . Everywhere the superfluity of agents is frightful ; in all commercial operations the number is ...
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