Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... follow as easily as a thread does a needle . He grows rich by the ruin of his neighbours , like grass in the streets in a great sickness . He shelters him- self under the covert of the law , like a thief in a hemp- plot , and makes that ...
... follow as easily as a thread does a needle . He grows rich by the ruin of his neighbours , like grass in the streets in a great sickness . He shelters him- self under the covert of the law , like a thief in a hemp- plot , and makes that ...
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... follow it for some time : then to ask advice of ano- ther , and turn to that ; so of a third ; still unsteady , al- ways changing . However , be assured that every change of this nature is for the worse ; people may tell you of your ...
... follow it for some time : then to ask advice of ano- ther , and turn to that ; so of a third ; still unsteady , al- ways changing . However , be assured that every change of this nature is for the worse ; people may tell you of your ...
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... follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . CXXV . Butler . Employment , which Galen calls " nature's physician , " is so essential to human happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the ...
... follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . CXXV . Butler . Employment , which Galen calls " nature's physician , " is so essential to human happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the ...
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... follows . Nay , authors have established it as a kind of rule , that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding - places in a volu- minous writer . This gave occasion to the ...
... follows . Nay , authors have established it as a kind of rule , that a man ought to be dull sometimes ; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding - places in a volu- minous writer . This gave occasion to the ...
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... us of what is to follow ; for laying the cloth is not a more sure indication of dinner than laying the carpet of bloody work at Drury - lane.— Goldsmith . Κ CCCLXXXVI . The effects of human industry and skill are LACONICS , 97.
... us of what is to follow ; for laying the cloth is not a more sure indication of dinner than laying the carpet of bloody work at Drury - lane.— Goldsmith . Κ CCCLXXXVI . The effects of human industry and skill are LACONICS , 97.
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