In conclusion, I may observe, that while I was composing this play, I wrote a short essay, illustrative of that constitution and those tendencies of human nature which make the apparently 'motiveless' actions of bad men intelligible to careful observers.

"Ah! You have read my essay?

Raffaele Garofalo published in the Neapolitan Journal of Philosophy and Literature an essay on criminality, in which he declared that the dangerousness of the criminal was the criterion by which society should measure the function of its defense against the disease of crime.

The appendix to this report contains an introductory essay "On the Intimate Pathology of Contagion," by Dr. Burdon-Sanderson, which is one of the clearest, most comprehensive, and well-reasoned discussions of a great question which has come under my notice for a long time.

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He can preach; that is, he can prepare interesting essays, chiefly of a literary sort, which are pleasant to listen to, though, in the nature of things, they can have scarcely a word in them of that deep, life-giving experience and counsel which come from the hearts of men and women who have lived, and know the truth of life.

Before Johnson gave these critical essays to the world, he had been doing little for years except talking in a straightforward manner.

It was not long after he had begun to contribute his Elia essays to the 'London Magazine.'

I debated with myself for a moment, whether I should pass it without notice, or should take this occasion, by voice or gesture, of making an essay of my trade.

Have you, my good friend, seen my last essay on morbid action?" The Brahmin replied, that he had not yet had an opportunity of meeting with it.

* Mr. Morley, again, selects the essay on Tennyson for especial praise.

From that time Addison was a regular contributor, and occasionally other writers added essays on the new social life of England.

If the reader be interested to apply a great man's philosophy to his own life, he will find the essay, "Of Great Place," most interesting in this connection.

But my plans were overthrown, for early in the summer of 1858 Alfred Russel Wallace, who was then in the Malay Archipelago, sent me an essay On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type, and this essay contained exactly the same theory as mine.

" 1892 PREFATORY NOTE I am indebted to the Editors of Scribner's Magazine, the Cosmopolitan, and Babyhood, for permission to reprint the three essays which have appeared in their pages.

In the whole progress of the work he did not receive more than ten essays.

In the same number of the London Magazine which included the present essay was Field's account of his outward voyage to New South Wales.

Everybody read and admired an essay the style of which was new and striking.

In the hope of remedying this state of affairs Wagner devoted several years to writing essays, in which he explained his aims and ideals for the benefit both of performers and listeners.

It is often impossible in the Tatler essays to separate the work of the two men; but the majority of critics hold that the more original parts, the characters, the thought, the overflowing kindliness, are largely Steele's creation; while to Addison fell the work of polishing and perfecting the essays, and of adding that touch of humor which made them the most welcome literary visitors that England had ever received.

* I was walking this afternoon along a certain street, coming home from visiting certain sick persons, and wondering how I should conclude this essay, when, standing on the pavement on one side of the street, I saw a little boy four years old crying in great distress.

The quotation on page 228 does not exactly end Temple's garden essay, as Lamb says.

With this sentence Lamb brought back his essay to its original title, and paved the way for the second partnow printed under that heading.

Lamb intended the essay originally for the Englishman's Magazine, November number, to follow the excursus on newspapers.

A student of twenty, who has in him great talent, no matter how undue a supremacy his imagination may meanwhile have, if he be set to producing an essay in Metaphysics to be read by professors of philosophy, will produce a composition singularly free from any trace of immaturity.