Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... ; for his drinking is but a scooping in of so many quarts . Tobacco serves to air him after a wash- ing , and is his only breath and breathing while . He is the greatest enemy to himself , and the next to his 24 LACONICS .
... ; for his drinking is but a scooping in of so many quarts . Tobacco serves to air him after a wash- ing , and is his only breath and breathing while . He is the greatest enemy to himself , and the next to his 24 LACONICS .
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... and brief . CXVIII . Butler . Great efforts of anger to little purpose , serve for plea . santry and farce . Exceeding fierceness , with perfect nability and impotence , makes the highest ridicule . Shaftesbury 30 LACONICS . CXII. ...
... and brief . CXVIII . Butler . Great efforts of anger to little purpose , serve for plea . santry and farce . Exceeding fierceness , with perfect nability and impotence , makes the highest ridicule . Shaftesbury 30 LACONICS . CXII. ...
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... serve So great a madness to preserve , As his , that ventures goods and chattels ( Where there's no quarter giv'n ) in battles , And fights with money bags as bold , As men with sandbags did of old ; Puts lands , and tenements , and ...
... serve So great a madness to preserve , As his , that ventures goods and chattels ( Where there's no quarter giv'n ) in battles , And fights with money bags as bold , As men with sandbags did of old ; Puts lands , and tenements , and ...
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... served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service of another ; but at present any vagabond is welcome , provided he promises to enter into our livery . It is wonderful , that we will not take a footman without ...
... served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service of another ; but at present any vagabond is welcome , provided he promises to enter into our livery . It is wonderful , that we will not take a footman without ...
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... serving them to curse their fooleries with better grace . They have store of gold , without knowing how to turn it to advantage ; and , like the innocent Indians , are drained of their riches without receiving a suitable re- ward ...
... serving them to curse their fooleries with better grace . They have store of gold , without knowing how to turn it to advantage ; and , like the innocent Indians , are drained of their riches without receiving a suitable re- ward ...
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