The Club: Or, A Grey Cap for a Green Head. Containing Maxims, Advice & Cautions, Being a Dialogue Between a Father & SonPrinted at the Chiswick Press, & are to be sold in London by Freemantle & Company, and in New York by Trueslove, Hanson & Comba, 1900 - 220 Seiten |
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Seite xv
... Author of y S - Sea Ballad , - " Puckle's Machine " is also made the subject of verse , though not so commendatory as the lines above quoted . The satirical epi- grammatist indeed characterizes it as There is a companion squib ...
... Author of y S - Sea Ballad , - " Puckle's Machine " is also made the subject of verse , though not so commendatory as the lines above quoted . The satirical epi- grammatist indeed characterizes it as There is a companion squib ...
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... author of The Club than as a rival of Maxim and Nordenfelt . That is to say , he is better known than he was a hundred years ago . For in 1817 , beyond the fact that he was responsible for two pamphlets , England's Interest : or , A ...
... author of The Club than as a rival of Maxim and Nordenfelt . That is to say , he is better known than he was a hundred years ago . For in 1817 , beyond the fact that he was responsible for two pamphlets , England's Interest : or , A ...
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... Author of " The Club " Identified , collected the results of his inquiries . Besides accumu- lating much information about previous Puckles , he discovered James Puckle's connection with the quick - firing gun already described ...
... Author of " The Club " Identified , collected the results of his inquiries . Besides accumu- lating much information about previous Puckles , he discovered James Puckle's connection with the quick - firing gun already described ...
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... Author ; and Sold by S. Crouch , at the Corner of Pope's - head Ally in Cornhil . 1711. The " Author's " name , as will be observed , is not given ; but on the third page is the ensuing Dedication : " To Micajah Perry , Esq ; And the ...
... Author ; and Sold by S. Crouch , at the Corner of Pope's - head Ally in Cornhil . 1711. The " Author's " name , as will be observed , is not given ; but on the third page is the ensuing Dedication : " To Micajah Perry , Esq ; And the ...
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... Author , or sets up for Knight of the Shire , must expect to have all his Faults publish'd with Additions . " Should any say , The Writer is an Argus abroad , a Mole at Home . " It's easily answer'd , Moses himself might take good ...
... Author , or sets up for Knight of the Shire , must expect to have all his Faults publish'd with Additions . " Should any say , The Writer is an Argus abroad , a Mole at Home . " It's easily answer'd , Moses himself might take good ...
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Seite xxvii - And generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others
Seite 196 - For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Seite 83 - And certainly there be not two more fortunate properties, than to have a little of the fool, and not too much of the honest. Therefore extreme lovers of their country or masters were never fortunate, neither can they be. For when a man placeth his thoughts without himself, he goeth not his own way. An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover ; (the French hath it better, entreprenant...
Seite 141 - Be sure to keep some great man thy friend, but trouble him not for trifles. Compliment him often with many, yet small gifts, and of little charge. And, if thou hast cause to bestow any great gratuity, let it be something which may be daily in sight. Otherwise, in this ambitious age, thou shalt remain like a hop without a pole, live in obscurity, and be made a football for every insulting companion to spurn at.
Seite 173 - Prest by Necessity, They kill for Food; Man undoes Man, to do himself no good. With Teeth and Claws by Nature arm'd, They hunt Nature's Allowance, to supply their Want: But Man...
Seite 162 - ... several occasions; but especially if he travel, as that which helps a man often to express, in a few lines well put together, what a whole sheet of paper in writing would not be able to represent and make intelligible.
Seite 108 - How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem; yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance, as this great volume of the world?
Seite 191 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and my last end be like his.
Seite 76 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Seite 128 - The sun shines in his full brightness but the very moment before he passes under a cloud. Who knows what a day, what an hour, nay, what a minute may bring forth ! He who builds upon the present, builds upon the narrow compass of a point; and where the foundation is so narrow, the superstructure cannot be high, and strong too.