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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...r ruine shall proceed from this commerce, which I imagine is already well advanced (miserable as they are to have suffered themselves to be so cosene... ...ie in these mutations, that even in my time I have seene no man nor woman advanced by fortune into some extraordinarie preferment, that hath not imme... ...eas the Abyssines are of a contrarie opinion, who accordingly as they are advanced to places of honour or dignitie about their Prince, called Preste... ...ord us all the pleasure that may be had from their art: but prentises and learners that are not of so high a forme, besmeare their faces, to disguis... ...may well bee: Is it true?' that they should rather have kept the forme of learners untill three score yeeres of age, than present themselves Doctors... ...son approach, and they apply themselves unto it, that is vertue. I have a Dictionary severally and wholly to my selfe. I passe the time when it is f...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...and there is either no serviceable Russian-English, English-Russian school dictionary in exist- ence, or it is published so badly as to be beyond the ... ...ir interest is in the teaching and not in the “getting there.” But what we learners want is not an exquisite, rare knowledge of particulars, we do not... ...h occupation of India as a conquest or a robbery. It is a fashion of much “advanced” literature in Europe to assume that the European rule of vari- ou...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

... to publish his results so soon as they appeared to him to be sufficiently advanced to furnish a basis for further work, and to that confiding disposi... ... had taken part only in a little shooting. The bayonet attack by which the advanced line was broken was made at a place called Croix Rouge, more than ... ...hin ten years from the establishment of the World Republic the New English Dictionary had swelled to include a vocabu- lary of 250,000 words, and a ma...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...hem up. Quackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions, they have fearfully abounded: but qu... ...him, that he might speak to them what he knew: print it in a Book, and all learners far and wide, for a trifle, had it each at his own fireside, much ... ...writes such! They are the avoidable kind!—Had Johnson left nothing but his Dictionary, one might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man. L...

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Barnaby Rudge a Tale of the Riots of Eighty

By: Charles Dickens

... who made him a profound obeisance, and delivering it to the long comrade, advanced to the table, and turning his back upon it, stood there Atlas wise... ...e came along in a san guinary and anatomical manner. As this silent group advanced, Mr Tappertit fixed his hat upon his head. The novice then laid hi... ...ords in an agony of appeal. Then, starting to his feet as she had done, he advanced towards her. ‘Beware!’ she cried in a suppressed voice, whose firm... ...he looked? Well? Why, if he had exhausted every laudatory adjective in the dictionary, it wouldn’t have been praise enough. When and where was there e...

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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

... the ripening summer sun. And directly below them the eye rested on a more advanced line of hanging woods, divided by bright patches of pasture or fur... ...en, being of an inquiring disposition, unchecked by any false modesty, had advanced beyond the group of women and chil- dren, and was walking round th... ...ot down from their horses: it was plain they meant to come in. Mrs. Poyser advanced to the door to meet them, curtsying low and trembling between ange... ...grim’s Progress, with Bunyan’s Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey’s Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Ba...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

... fixed on wool. These toys are coloured very tastefully, but as Preyer has advanced strong reasons for supposing that the child’s discrimination of co... ...ork—even if the effect is a little startling at times—they should hunt the dictionary for material. A good book for the upper forms in schools deal- i... ...would exist the scheme, the method, the primers and text-books, the School Dictionary, the examination syllabus, and all that is now needed for the pr... ...- fice unchallenged or be subjected to a fresh contest. This suggestion is advanced here in this concrete form merely to show the sort of thing that m... ... most excel- lent preliminary to special theological study and also to the advanced study of economics and political science. From this course also ar...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... by these songs, Sailing henceforth to every land, to every sea,) We willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all. We have watch’d the ... ...g. I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid, It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol. Something it swings on more than the earth... ... walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. Not only all the world of works, trade, prod... ...lemn night, (for something I know not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe, As I... ...orner utterly crush’d beneath you, The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife, The wide ...

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