Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... never to come to an untimely end , for by the course of law his glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to be false unlawful coin , he was seized upon , and cut ...
... never to come to an untimely end , for by the course of law his glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to be false unlawful coin , he was seized upon , and cut ...
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... never agree but , like Herod and Pilate , to do mischief . His conscience never stands in his light , when the devil holds a candle to him ; for he has stretched it so thin that it is transparent . He is an engineer of treachery , fraud ...
... never agree but , like Herod and Pilate , to do mischief . His conscience never stands in his light , when the devil holds a candle to him ; for he has stretched it so thin that it is transparent . He is an engineer of treachery , fraud ...
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... never falling , but rising every time we fall . - Confucius . XXIV . The estimate and valour of a man consist in the heart and in the will ; there his true honour lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and ...
... never falling , but rising every time we fall . - Confucius . XXIV . The estimate and valour of a man consist in the heart and in the will ; there his true honour lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and ...
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... never be attained by solitary diligence , but must arise from general converse and accurate ob- servation of the living world . Their performances have , as Horace expresses it , plus oneris quantum veniæ minus , little indulgence , and ...
... never be attained by solitary diligence , but must arise from general converse and accurate ob- servation of the living world . Their performances have , as Horace expresses it , plus oneris quantum veniæ minus , little indulgence , and ...
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... never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ; and laughter being a visible symptom of some inward satisfaction , it is then , if ever , we may believe the face . There is , per- haps , no better index to point us to the ...
... never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ; and laughter being a visible symptom of some inward satisfaction , it is then , if ever , we may believe the face . There is , per- haps , no better index to point us to the ...
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