Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... mean the continual corruption of our English tongue ; which , without some timely remedy , will suffer more by the false refinements of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . - Swift . III . The ...
... mean the continual corruption of our English tongue ; which , without some timely remedy , will suffer more by the false refinements of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . - Swift . III . The ...
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... means of sucking smoke through a tube of clay ; and others raising contributions upon those , whose elegance disdains the grossness of smoky luxury , by grinding the same materials into a powder that may at once gratify and impair the ...
... means of sucking smoke through a tube of clay ; and others raising contributions upon those , whose elegance disdains the grossness of smoky luxury , by grinding the same materials into a powder that may at once gratify and impair the ...
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... means to be used at some future time for the attainment of felicity , ardour after them secures us from weariness of ourselves , but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the ...
... means to be used at some future time for the attainment of felicity , ardour after them secures us from weariness of ourselves , but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the ...
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... silent , with unconscious light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . A. Hill CXII . # Reason is a very light rider , 24 LACONICS .
... silent , with unconscious light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . A. Hill CXII . # Reason is a very light rider , 24 LACONICS .
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... means of increasing the love we bear our native country , is to reside some time in a foreign one . - Shenstone . CLXIX . Laws are like cobwebs , which may catch small flies , but let wasps and hornets break through . - Swift . CLXX . A ...
... means of increasing the love we bear our native country , is to reside some time in a foreign one . - Shenstone . CLXIX . Laws are like cobwebs , which may catch small flies , but let wasps and hornets break through . - Swift . CLXX . A ...
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