Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... Butler . Ile who always prefaces his tale with laughter , is poisoned between impertinence and folly . — Lavater . CXLIII . If a man's wits be wandering , let him study the ma- thematics ; for in demonstrations , if his wit be called ...
... Butler . Ile who always prefaces his tale with laughter , is poisoned between impertinence and folly . — Lavater . CXLIII . If a man's wits be wandering , let him study the ma- thematics ; for in demonstrations , if his wit be called ...
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... Butler . Deceit may serve for a need , but he only confesses him self overcome , who knows he is neither subdued by policy nor misadventure , but by dint of valour , in a fair and manly war . - Montaigne . CXC . The ancients talk so ...
... Butler . Deceit may serve for a need , but he only confesses him self overcome , who knows he is neither subdued by policy nor misadventure , but by dint of valour , in a fair and manly war . - Montaigne . CXC . The ancients talk so ...
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... Butler . If thou art powerful in interest , and standest deified by a servile tribe of dependants , -why shouldest thou be proud , because they are hungry ? -Scourge me such sycophants ; they have turned the heads of thousands as well ...
... Butler . If thou art powerful in interest , and standest deified by a servile tribe of dependants , -why shouldest thou be proud , because they are hungry ? -Scourge me such sycophants ; they have turned the heads of thousands as well ...
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... Butler . No condition passes for servitude that is accompanied with great riches , with honours , and with the service of many inferiors . This is but a deception of the sight through a false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentleman in ...
... Butler . No condition passes for servitude that is accompanied with great riches , with honours , and with the service of many inferiors . This is but a deception of the sight through a false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentleman in ...
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... Butler . It seems to be with the devil in respect to the disorder of the soul , as it is with the spleen in respect to the dis- tempers of the body ; whatsoever is amiss , or indisposed , the charge is sure to lie there . - Dr . South ...
... Butler . It seems to be with the devil in respect to the disorder of the soul , as it is with the spleen in respect to the dis- tempers of the body ; whatsoever is amiss , or indisposed , the charge is sure to lie there . - Dr . South ...
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