Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... hath not wit enough to tell twenty , or to tell his age ; he shall not passe with me for wise in learning , who cannot tell the age of the world , and count hundreds of years : I mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising ...
... hath not wit enough to tell twenty , or to tell his age ; he shall not passe with me for wise in learning , who cannot tell the age of the world , and count hundreds of years : I mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising ...
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... ; our choosing kings and queens on twelfth night , hath reference to the * Those lines are what the geometricians call the asymptotes of the hyperbola . three kings . So likewise our eating of fritters , 18 LACONICS .
... ; our choosing kings and queens on twelfth night , hath reference to the * Those lines are what the geometricians call the asymptotes of the hyperbola . three kings . So likewise our eating of fritters , 18 LACONICS .
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... hath let go himself from the hold and stay of reason , and lies open to the mercy of all temptations . No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless , and with the least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his fault ...
... hath let go himself from the hold and stay of reason , and lies open to the mercy of all temptations . No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless , and with the least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his fault ...
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... hath been very nume- rous . Every pert young fellow that has a moving fancy , and the least jingle of verse in his head , sets up for a writer of songs , and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress . What a world of insipid ...
... hath been very nume- rous . Every pert young fellow that has a moving fancy , and the least jingle of verse in his head , sets up for a writer of songs , and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress . What a world of insipid ...
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... hath the least judgment in it , ) this vagrant hath been whipped out of all learned corporations . If our artist lodgeth her in the out rooms of his soul for a night or two , it is rather to heare than believe her rela- tions . - Fuller ...
... hath the least judgment in it , ) this vagrant hath been whipped out of all learned corporations . If our artist lodgeth her in the out rooms of his soul for a night or two , it is rather to heare than believe her rela- tions . - Fuller ...
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