Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... talk of nothing else , is a very indifferent compa- nion , and what we call a pedant . But we should enlarge the ... talks in a camp , and in storming towns , making lodgements , and fighting battles from one end of the year to the other ...
... talk of nothing else , is a very indifferent compa- nion , and what we call a pedant . But we should enlarge the ... talks in a camp , and in storming towns , making lodgements , and fighting battles from one end of the year to the other ...
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... talks very notably ; but if you go out of the gazette , you drop him . In short , a mere courtier , a mere soldier , a mere scholar , a mere any thing , is an insipid , pedantic character , and equally ridiculous . - Spectator . CXXXV ...
... talks very notably ; but if you go out of the gazette , you drop him . In short , a mere courtier , a mere soldier , a mere scholar , a mere any thing , is an insipid , pedantic character , and equally ridiculous . - Spectator . CXXXV ...
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... talks Greek at a card - table . - B . Thornton . CLXXII . The great art of life is to play for much , and stake little . - Johnson . · CLXXIII As almost every character which has excited either LACONICS . 35 the utmost subtlety of ...
... talks Greek at a card - table . - B . Thornton . CLXXII . The great art of life is to play for much , and stake little . - Johnson . · CLXXIII As almost every character which has excited either LACONICS . 35 the utmost subtlety of ...
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... 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 frequently of a fixed 338 LACONICS .
... 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 frequently of a fixed 338 LACONICS .
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... talk so frequently of a fixed , stated por- tion of provisions assigned to each slave , that we are na- turally led to conclude , that slaves lived almost all single , and received that portion as a kind of board - wages.- Hume . CXCI ...
... talk so frequently of a fixed , stated por- tion of provisions assigned to each slave , that we are na- turally led to conclude , that slaves lived almost all single , and received that portion as a kind of board - wages.- Hume . CXCI ...
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