Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volumen2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... death itself . If you would not rather be commended than be praiseworthy , contemn little merits ; and allow no man to be so free with you , as to praise you to your face . Your vanity by this means will want its food . At the same time ...
... death itself . If you would not rather be commended than be praiseworthy , contemn little merits ; and allow no man to be so free with you , as to praise you to your face . Your vanity by this means will want its food . At the same time ...
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... death he is never troubled , and if he get in but his harvest before , let it come when it will , he cares not.— Bishop Earle . LXV . He who in questions of right , virtue , or duty , sets him- self above all ridicule , is truly great ...
... death he is never troubled , and if he get in but his harvest before , let it come when it will , he cares not.— Bishop Earle . LXV . He who in questions of right , virtue , or duty , sets him- self above all ridicule , is truly great ...
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... hinder us from tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retire- ment or death any chasm in the world . - Johnson . CXII . There is a sort of masonry in poetry D 3 LACONICS . 29 1 ...
... hinder us from tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retire- ment or death any chasm in the world . - Johnson . CXII . There is a sort of masonry in poetry D 3 LACONICS . 29 1 ...
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... death - bed like the meanest slave . Who reasons wisely , is not therefore wise ; His pride in reas'ning , not in acting , lies . CXLI . Pope . The more honesty a man has , the less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation of ...
... death - bed like the meanest slave . Who reasons wisely , is not therefore wise ; His pride in reas'ning , not in acting , lies . CXLI . Pope . The more honesty a man has , the less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation of ...
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... but him- self , Lilburn would quarrel with John , and John with Lilburn ; " which part of his character gave occasion for the following lines at his death : - Is John departed , and is Lilburn gone ? Farewell LACONICS . 55 CCXIV. ...
... but him- self , Lilburn would quarrel with John , and John with Lilburn ; " which part of his character gave occasion for the following lines at his death : - Is John departed , and is Lilburn gone ? Farewell LACONICS . 55 CCXIV. ...
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