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Sentences starting with essay
- Essay on Persian Poetry.--Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival--Letter from Emerson to a Lady.--Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau.--Address on the Emancipation Proclamation.--Publication of "The Conduct of Life. [6]
- Essay on Persian Poetry.--Speech at the Burns Centennial Festival.--Letter from Emerson to a Lady.--Tributes to Theodore Parker and to Thoreau.--Address on the Emancipation Proclamation.--Publication of "The Conduct of Life. [6]
Sentences ending with essay
- How long, and with what other precautions, I have suggested, without dictating, at the close of my Essay. [3]
- The readers of this great story-teller, who was so long in obtaining recognition, who "made twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed under him" before he achieved success, will find his genius fully appreciated and fairly weighed in this discriminating essay. [6]
- Such was the reason of the present writer's taking up the writings of Jonathan Edwards for examination in a recent essay. [6]
- The extent of my prefatory remarks may lead some to think that I attach too much importance to my own Essay. [3]
- There are two main objects, as I understand it, of this Harper's Magazine essay. [7]
- But the mere leaving out is not the most remarkable feature of this most remarkable essay. [7]
- I do not know that I shall ever again have so good an opportunity of being useful as was granted me by the raising of the question which produced this Essay. [3]
- All this is, however, of little importance, for this is not the work of Edwards referred to by the present writer in his previous essay. [6]
- The readers who had shaken their heads over the unsuccessful story of "Morton's Hope" were startled by the appearance of this manly and scholarly essay. [6]
- When the Lecture had served its purpose, it came before the public in the shape of an Essay. [6]
Short sentences using essay
- Let Hosea essay the bridge! [10]
- Century, The, essay in, 295. [6]
- Diderot, Denis, essay, 79. [6]
- Emerson's essay, 22, 23, 77. [6]
- Commodity, essay, 94. [6]
- A Prize Essay. [3]
Sentences containing essay two or more times
- We have recognized most of the thoughts in the Essay entitled "Nature," in the previous Essay by the same name, and others which we have passed in review. [6]
More example sentences with the word essay in them
- Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
- The reader who would finish this Essay, which I suspect to belong to an early period of Emerson's development, must be prepared to plunge into mysticism and lose himself at last in an Oriental apologue. [6]
- The Emersonian adept will pardon me for burdening this beautiful Essay with a commentary which is worse than superfluous for him. [6]
- It appears doubtful whether such colours often serve as a protection; but that we may easily err on this head, will be admitted by every one who reads Mr. Wallace's excellent essay on this subject. [1]
- Whatever faults there were in this essay, it interested them both. [6]
- The old newspaper was a broadside of stale news, with a moral essay attached. [4]
- There was an undertone in the essay which was in keeping with the mode of life of the solitary stranger. [6]
- I would like to know, in the case covered by the essay, what condition the people of the Territory are in before they reach the number of ten thousand? [7]
- It is interesting to compare this first sketch with the elaboration of it in the essay on "The Angler" in the "Sketch-Book. [4]
- The first thing to be done, as I thought when I wrote my Essay, was to throw out all discussions of the word contagion, and this I did effectually by the careful wording of my statement of the subject to be discussed. [3]
- I have gone to a town with a sober literary essay in my pocket, and seen myself everywhere announced as the most desperate of buffos,--one who was obliged to restrain himself in the full exercise of his powers, from prudential considerations. [6]
- This mention led to a friendly correspondence between the writer and one of the professors in the theological school at Andover, and finally to the publication of a brief essay, which, for some reason, had been withheld from publication for more than a century. [6]
- In saying all this the Drawer is well aware that it subjects itself to the charge of being commonplace, but it is precisely the commonplace that this essay seeks to defend. [4]
- Every word of this Essay deserves careful reading. [6]
- Let me sweeten these closing paragraphs of an essay not meaning to hold a word of bitterness with a passage or two from the lay-preacher who is listened to by a larger congregation than any man who speaks from the pulpit. [6]
- One essay on the subject was prepared for the meeting held at Washington in May, 1900, of the American Social Science Association, of which he was president. [4]
- Each division of the subject might have been extended into a separate essay, but must here be treated briefly. [1]
- It was, in the main, the same noble Essay that has since been printed. [6]
- And now, in the Essay we have just been looking at, I find that "his books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level. [6]
- It is wronging the Essay on "Books" to make extracts from it. [6]
- I find in the Essay on "Art" many of the thoughts with which we are familiar in Emerson's poem, "The Problem. [6]
- The _Cosmos_ of the Ancient Greeks, the _piu nel' uno_, "The Many in One," appear in the Essay on Michael Angelo as they also appear in his "Nature. [6]
- While I was suffering from it, I wrote some sadly desponding poems, and a theological essay which took a very melancholy view of creation. [6]
- The essay was subsequently published during the same year in a volume entitled "Studies of Irving," which contained also Bryant's oration and George P. Putnam's personal reminiscences. [4]
- Also an Essay, spoken at the great final exhibition, held in the large hall up-stairs, which hangs oddly enough from the roof, suspended by iron rods. [6]
- Emerson, Edward Waldo, son of Ralph Waldo: in New York, 246; on the Farming essay, 255; father's last days, 346-349; reminiscences, 359. [6]
- But he says so many things worth reading in the Essay thus entitled in the "Conduct of Life" that we need not trouble ourselves about repetitions. [6]
- In five minutes she could have got from the encyclopaedia all the facts in the essay, and while her maid was doing her hair she could have read five times as much of Steele as the essayist read. [4]
- There are many sayings in the Essay called "The Poet," which are meant for the initiated, rather than for him who runs, to read:-- "All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. [6]
- The Essay is satirical and poetical rather than philosophical. [6]
- Doltaire, with some renegade Virginian who knew Williamsburg and myself, had made essay to get my papers. [11]
- This author has recently published a valuable essay on the 'Caratteri sessuali secondarii degli Arachnidi,' in the 'Atti della Soc. [1]
- The Essay was read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and, at the request of the Society, printed in the "New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery" for April, 1843. [3]
- This Essay was read before a small Association called "The Society for Medical Improvement," and published in a Medical Journal which lasted but a single year. [6]
- The tract recently printed as a volume may be the one referred to by Dr. Bushnell, in 1851, but of this reference by him the writer never heard until after his own essay was already printed. [6]
- This essay is plain enough for the least "transcendental" reader. [6]
- The Essay on Persian Poetry, published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1858, should be studied by all readers who are curious in tracing the influence of Oriental poetry on Emerson's verse. [6]
- A poor poem or essay does not do much harm after all; nobody reads it who is like to be seriously hurt by it. [6]
- Motley spoke at one of the college exhibitions an essay on Goethe so excellent that Mr. Joseph Cogswell sent it to Madam Goethe, who, after reading it, said, 'I wish to see the first book that young man will write. [6]
- To satisfy him on this ground, I addressed the following question to the President of one of our principal Insurance Companies, leaving Dr. Meigs's book and my Essay in his hands at the same time. [3]
- Take the Essay on History, in the first series of Essays, for instance. [6]
- The express object of this Essay is to prove that it is so carried. [3]
- So I say of the whole history contained in his essay where he endeavored to link the men of the Revolution to popular sovereignty. [7]
- Near the close of the copyright essay, the judge, I think, comes very near kicking his own fat into the fire. [7]
- A young friend of mine in his college days wrote an essay on Plato. [6]
- It is a not uninteresting question whether Emerson has bequeathed to the language any essay or poem which will resist the flow of time like "the adamant of Shakespeare," and remain a classic like the Essays of Addison or Gray's Elegy. [6]
- As this is not so much an essay on the nature of equality is an attempt to indicate some of the modern tendencies to carry out what is illusory in the dogma, perhaps enough has been said of this period. [4]
- There can be no doubt that he would have confessed as much with reference to "The Over-Soul" as he has confessed with regard to "Circles," the Essay which follows "The Over-Soul. [6]
- But the Essay never lost the character it borrowed from the conditions under which it was delivered; it was a lay sermon,--_concio ad populum_. [6]
- I do consider my Essay of much importance so long as the doctrine it maintains is treated as a question, and so long as any important part of the defence of that doctrine is thought to rest on its evidence or arguments. [3]
- I think it must be the roundest and broadest and completest short essay he has ever written. [5]
- Not long ago Mr. James Anthony Froude published an essay on Progress, in which he examined some of the evidences upon which we rely to prove that we live in an "era of progress. [4]
- The good Baptist minister's Essay is full of it. [6]
- I used the material thus acquired afterward for my habilitation essay, but the impulse natural to me of imparting my intellectual gains to others had induced me to utilize it in a special way. [10]
- A paragraph which made a profound impression on Hodder at that time occurs in James's essay, "Is life worth living? [9]
- But this Essay looks to me as if he had found the reading of Goethe hard work. [6]
- I have received long letters on this subject from Messrs. Hewitt and Tegetmeier, and almost an essay from the late Mr. Brent. [1]
- What the mulberry leaf is to the silk-worm, the author's book, treatise, essay, poem, is to the critical larva; that feed upon it. [6]
- It will be just the converse of that odd essay of Swift's we read together, the awkward and stupid things done with the best intentions. [6]
- Certainly the essay just quoted from would not make a very promising campaign document. [6]
- What unlucky chance it was I know not that impelled Comyn to essay again the trick by which he had come so near to spitting me; but try it he did, this time in prime and seconde. [9]
- This latter essay is valuable, as Mr. Riley here discusses all the objections which have been raised against Mr. Bates's theory. [1]
- The real evidence is too subtle, or is higher than we can write down in propositions, and therefore Wordsworth's 'Ode' is the best modern essay on the subject. [6]
- An appropriate one is given in the essay by Kern quoted below, from zara golden, and thwistra glittering; thus "the gold glittering one. [10]
- I had some intention of including with these papers an Essay on Intermittent Fever in New England, which received one of the Boylston prizes in 1837, and was published in the following year. [6]
- And it was in the year following the publication of the first essay, or about that time (1846), that he began collecting materials for a history of Holland. [6]
- The first Essay in the volume bears the same name as the volume itself. [6]
- The essay was in his nature, and his occupation as a journalist had developed the tendency towards this form of literary activity, as well as skill in its manipulation. [4]
- He began an imitation of his old restlessness, and made essay again to pull the strings of his affairs. [11]
- The other point I have marked is that we find in this Essay a prose version of the fine poem, printed in "May-Day" under the title "Days. [6]
- The subject of his essay is the American Press, and he will use as his text a couple of paragraphs taken from Mr. Matthew Arnold's new book. [5]
- I will remark here, in passing, that during that fearful time I did not continue my essay upon political economy. [5]
- The anxiety of her soul lent an unnatural brightness to her eyes; so that more than one enamoured courtier made essay to engage her in conversation, and paid her deferential compliment when the Queen's eyes were not turned her way. [11]
- The phenomena which have been observed in this young patient correspond so nearly with those enumerated in the elaborate essay of the celebrated Baglivi that one might think they had been transcribed from his pages. [6]
- M. J.P. Durand has lately (1868) published a valuable essay, 'De l'Influence des Milieux,' etc. [1]
- It was "the hand of Douglas" again,--the same feeling that Charles Emerson expressed in the youthful essay mentioned in the introduction to this volume. [6]
- Or, if he had honored my Essay so far, he might have found striking instances of the same kind in the first of the new series of cases there reported and elsewhere. [3]
- It seems he had been presented by a gentleman of the name of Jarvis with a book, or essay, or periodical, called the Republican, and he was writing in acknowledgment of the present, and noting some of its contents. [7]
- It is not generally understood that Cicero's essay was delivered as a lyceum lecture, (concio popularis,) at the Temple of Mercury. [6]
- It is only for their sake that I think it necessary to analyze, or explain, or illustrate, or corroborate any portion of the following Essay. [3]
- There is opportunity for a very instructive essay by Mr. E. A. Freeman on the decadence of the Attic goat under the influence of the Ottoman Turk. [4]
- It might be fitting to add a few words with regard to the Essay on the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever. [6]
- I will now exhibit, in a series of propositions reduced to their simplest expression, the same essential statements and conclusions as are contained in the Essay, with such commentaries and explanations as may be profitable to the inexperienced class of readers addressed. [3]
- Macaulay, in his Essay, has much to say about the splendor and horizonless magnitude of that equipment. [5]
- See his remarkable essay, 'Anwendung der Darwin'schen Lehre auf Bienen,' 'Verh. [1]
- Eloquence, 254; second essay, 285, 286. [6]
- Since that first essay was written, nearly half a century ago, we have all had a chance to witness its practical working. [6]
- I suppose this Essay was of later date than "Beauty," or "Illusions. [6]
- But he made essay to stand up lightly, nevertheless. [11]
- I read an essay the other day that said it was easy to raise money for anything mechanical and practical in a school, but nobody wanted to give for anything ideal. [4]
- If Mr. Froude's essay is anything but an exhibition of the scholarly weapons of criticism, it is the expression of a profound disbelief in the intellectual education of the masses of the people. [4]
- In this first Essay Emerson is very fair to the antagonistic claims of solitary and social life. [6]
- This Essay of Emerson's is irradiated by a single precept that is worthy to stand by the side of that which Juvenal says came from heaven. [6]
- I will not detain the reader any longer from the essay I have promised. [6]
- The theme would demand an essay by itself. [4]
- You've got to cultivate the high things--that essay says--the abstract, that which does not seem practically useful, or society will become low and material. [4]
- Think of the change of opinion with regard to the use of opium in delirium tremens (which you remember is sometimes called delirium vigilans), where it seemed so obviously indicated, since the publication of Dr. Ware's admirable essay. [3]
- Many series of cases, answering to these conditions, are given in this Essay, and many others will be referred to which have occurred since it was written. [3]
- I would also call the student's attention to his account of the relations of the nervous centres to nutrition and secretion, the last of which relations has been made the subject of an extended essay by our fellow countryman, Dr. H. F. Campbell of Georgia. [3]
- But we must borrow only a few sentences from his essay on that subject. [6]
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