Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... rest which are dispersed up and down in it . - Addison . XIV . The age of chivalry is gone , and one of calculators and economists has succeeded . - Burke . XV . I do not call him a poet that writes for his own diver- sion , any more ...
... rest which are dispersed up and down in it . - Addison . XIV . The age of chivalry is gone , and one of calculators and economists has succeeded . - Burke . XV . I do not call him a poet that writes for his own diver- sion , any more ...
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... rest , to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs , that are unprofitable , and of no wholesome use ; even so it is with wits , which if not applied to some certain study that may ...
... rest , to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weeds and wild herbs , that are unprofitable , and of no wholesome use ; even so it is with wits , which if not applied to some certain study that may ...
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... rest of the company . -Swift . LXXXV . The scripture may have more senses besides the literal ; because God understands all things at once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense , which is that which the author meant when he wrote ...
... rest of the company . -Swift . LXXXV . The scripture may have more senses besides the literal ; because God understands all things at once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense , which is that which the author meant when he wrote ...
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... rest of the company , and therefore is most likely to please them ; for this purpose we should store our memory with short anecdotes and entertaining pieces of history . Almost every one listens with eagerness to extemporary history ...
... rest of the company , and therefore is most likely to please them ; for this purpose we should store our memory with short anecdotes and entertaining pieces of history . Almost every one listens with eagerness to extemporary history ...
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... rest into compliance with their opinion ; so that the verdict may possibly be given by strength of constitution , not by conviction of conscience and " wretches hang that jurymen may dine . " - Lord Orrery . CLI . Some modern zealots ...
... rest into compliance with their opinion ; so that the verdict may possibly be given by strength of constitution , not by conviction of conscience and " wretches hang that jurymen may dine . " - Lord Orrery . CLI . Some modern zealots ...
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