Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volumen2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... excellent founder , and will melt down a leaden fool , and cast him into what form he pleases . He is like a pike in a pond , that lives by rapine , and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind , and devour a knave as big as ...
... excellent founder , and will melt down a leaden fool , and cast him into what form he pleases . He is like a pike in a pond , that lives by rapine , and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind , and devour a knave as big as ...
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... excellent sauce , but they have lived and died poore , that made them their meat . - Fuller . CXXII . There are numbers in the world , who do not want sense , to make a figure , so much as an opinion of their own abilities , to put them ...
... excellent sauce , but they have lived and died poore , that made them their meat . - Fuller . CXXII . There are numbers in the world , who do not want sense , to make a figure , so much as an opinion of their own abilities , to put them ...
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... excellent at home and intolerable abroad , or insufferable within doors and ex- cellent in public : they are unfit for friendship , merely because their stamina , their ingredients of character are too single , too much apart ; let them ...
... excellent at home and intolerable abroad , or insufferable within doors and ex- cellent in public : they are unfit for friendship , merely because their stamina , their ingredients of character are too single , too much apart ; let them ...
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... excellent feeders . -Burton . CLXIII . It was said of one who preached very well , and lived very ill , " that when he was out of the pulpit , it was pity he should ever go into it : and when he was in the pulpit , it was pity he should ...
... excellent feeders . -Burton . CLXIII . It was said of one who preached very well , and lived very ill , " that when he was out of the pulpit , it was pity he should ever go into it : and when he was in the pulpit , it was pity he should ...
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... excellent it may be in itself , which in the smallest degree wounds the feelings of another , is coarse unfeeling horse - play ; and no person who possesses either piety , grace , or good manners , will use such jests as are mordentes ...
... excellent it may be in itself , which in the smallest degree wounds the feelings of another , is coarse unfeeling horse - play ; and no person who possesses either piety , grace , or good manners , will use such jests as are mordentes ...
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