Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... manner , what has been done amiss — what character so unexceptionable as to be able to stand before him ? -Sterne . LIII . There is a time which precedes reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the ...
... manner , what has been done amiss — what character so unexceptionable as to be able to stand before him ? -Sterne . LIII . There is a time which precedes reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the ...
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... manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness ; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness . - Franklin . + LXXXIX . He that would please in ...
... manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness ; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness . - Franklin . + LXXXIX . He that would please in ...
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... manner dig- ging his own grave . - Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of ...
... manner dig- ging his own grave . - Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of ...
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... manner of judging it , than by counting noses . By this rule , if they can poll an indif- ferent number out of a mob ; if they can produce a set of Lancashire noodles , remote provincial head - pieces , or visionary assemblies , to ...
... manner of judging it , than by counting noses . By this rule , if they can poll an indif- ferent number out of a mob ; if they can produce a set of Lancashire noodles , remote provincial head - pieces , or visionary assemblies , to ...
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... manner and of dress , is more engaging , than that glare of paint and airs and apparel , which may dazzle the eye , but reaches not the affections . - Hume . CLXXX . All courageous animals are carnivorous , and greater courage is to be ...
... manner and of dress , is more engaging , than that glare of paint and airs and apparel , which may dazzle the eye , but reaches not the affections . - Hume . CLXXX . All courageous animals are carnivorous , and greater courage is to be ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon LUDGATE HILL man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racters reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young