Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... greater desire to live long than to live well ! Measure by man's desires , he cannot live long enough ; measure by his good deeds , and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deeds , and he has lived too long . - Zimmerman ...
... greater desire to live long than to live well ! Measure by man's desires , he cannot live long enough ; measure by his good deeds , and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deeds , and he has lived too long . - Zimmerman ...
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... greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards , and found her there.- Dryden . CVIII . Pleasures are like poppies spread , You seize the flower , its bloom is ...
... greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards , and found her there.- Dryden . CVIII . Pleasures are like poppies spread , You seize the flower , its bloom is ...
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... greater knave as he grows older . Chesterfield . CXXVII . Every true critic is a hero born , descending in a direct line from a celestial stem , by Momus and Hybris , who begat Zoilus , who begat Tygellius , who begat Etcætera the elder ...
... greater knave as he grows older . Chesterfield . CXXVII . Every true critic is a hero born , descending in a direct line from a celestial stem , by Momus and Hybris , who begat Zoilus , who begat Tygellius , who begat Etcætera the elder ...
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... greater pedant than a mere man of the town ? Bar him the play - houses , a catalogue of the reigning beauties , and you strike him dumb . The military pedant always talks in a camp , and in storming towns , making lodgements , and ...
... greater pedant than a mere man of the town ? Bar him the play - houses , a catalogue of the reigning beauties , and you strike him dumb . The military pedant always talks in a camp , and in storming towns , making lodgements , and ...
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... greater courage is to be expected in a people , such as the English , whose food is strong and hearty , than in the half - starved commonalty of other countries . - Sir W. Temple CLXXXI . A young fellow who seems to have no will of his ...
... greater courage is to be expected in a people , such as the English , whose food is strong and hearty , than in the half - starved commonalty of other countries . - Sir W. Temple CLXXXI . A young fellow who seems to have no will of his ...
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