Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Complete Writings: Prose works
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Writings in Prose and Verse ...
Writings in Prose and Verse
Some prose writings
Early Prose Writings
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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The Writings in Prose and Verse
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Writings: Prose works
The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: The jungle book (1897)
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling: A book of words
Selections from the Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458972446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST KRIDAY BF.TWKF.N THE Hnctcnt ano the flDooern Boohs IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY London, 1704 The Preface of the Author. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned, from long experience, never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the 10 sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to render all its efforts feeble and impotent. There is a brain that will endure but one scumming; let the owner gather it with discretion, and 15 manage his little stock with husbandry; but, of all things, let him beware of bringing it under the lashof his betters, because that will make it all bubble up into impertinence, and he will find no new supply. Wit, without knowledge, being a sort of cream, which gathers in a night to the top, and, by a skilful hand, may be soon whipped into froth; 5 but, once scummed away, what appears underneath will be fit for nothing but to be thrown to the hogs. A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT, Ac. Whoever examines, with due circumspection, into the Annual Records of Time, will find it remarked, that war is the child of pride, and pride the 10 daughter of riches: ?the former of which assertions may be soon granted, but one cannot so easily subscribe to the latter; for pride is nearly related to . beggary and want, either by father or mother, and sometimes by both: and to speak naturally, it very 5 seldom happens among men to fall out when a'.l hav...
Publisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458972446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST KRIDAY BF.TWKF.N THE Hnctcnt ano the flDooern Boohs IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY London, 1704 The Preface of the Author. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned, from long experience, never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the 10 sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to render all its efforts feeble and impotent. There is a brain that will endure but one scumming; let the owner gather it with discretion, and 15 manage his little stock with husbandry; but, of all things, let him beware of bringing it under the lashof his betters, because that will make it all bubble up into impertinence, and he will find no new supply. Wit, without knowledge, being a sort of cream, which gathers in a night to the top, and, by a skilful hand, may be soon whipped into froth; 5 but, once scummed away, what appears underneath will be fit for nothing but to be thrown to the hogs. A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT, Ac. Whoever examines, with due circumspection, into the Annual Records of Time, will find it remarked, that war is the child of pride, and pride the 10 daughter of riches: ?the former of which assertions may be soon granted, but one cannot so easily subscribe to the latter; for pride is nearly related to . beggary and want, either by father or mother, and sometimes by both: and to speak naturally, it very 5 seldom happens among men to fall out when a'.l hav...