Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... once before . XIII . Butler . Without chronology , history is but an heap of tales . If by the laws of the land , an artist is counted a naturall , who hath not wit enough to tell twenty , or to tell his age ; he shall not passe with me ...
... once before . XIII . Butler . Without chronology , history is but an heap of tales . If by the laws of the land , an artist is counted a naturall , who hath not wit enough to tell twenty , or to tell his age ; he shall not passe with me ...
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... once we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind , and we may then bring people to adopt what would offend them , if endeavoured to be introduced by violence . - Sir J. Reynolds . XXIII . Our greatest ...
... once we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind , and we may then bring people to adopt what would offend them , if endeavoured to be introduced by violence . - Sir J. Reynolds . XXIII . Our greatest ...
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... once softened or turned the edge of that diffidence which ought to be your guard.— Plutarch . XXVII . It is a common and just observation , that , when the meaning of any thing is dubious , one can no way better judge of the true intent ...
... once softened or turned the edge of that diffidence which ought to be your guard.— Plutarch . XXVII . It is a common and just observation , that , when the meaning of any thing is dubious , one can no way better judge of the true intent ...
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... once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming Rome , and as it burn'd he play'd . Waller . - To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually ...
... once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming Rome , and as it burn'd he play'd . Waller . - To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually ...
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... once made ; but fashion makes us think light of the toil , and we describe the circle as me- chanically as a horse in a mill . - Zimmerman . LXXII . To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others , is neither ...
... once made ; but fashion makes us think light of the toil , and we describe the circle as me- chanically as a horse in a mill . - Zimmerman . LXXII . To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others , is neither ...
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