Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... cause where he fears it is foun- dred . For many clients in telling their case , rather plead than relate it , so that the advocate hears not the true state of it , till opened by the adverse party . Surely , the law- yer that fills ...
... cause where he fears it is foun- dred . For many clients in telling their case , rather plead than relate it , so that the advocate hears not the true state of it , till opened by the adverse party . Surely , the law- yer that fills ...
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... cause of quarrel for a man to say , he allows a gentleman really to be what his tailor , his hosier , and his milliner , have conspired to make him ! I confess , if any person who appealed to me had said , he was " not a smart fellow ...
... cause of quarrel for a man to say , he allows a gentleman really to be what his tailor , his hosier , and his milliner , have conspired to make him ! I confess , if any person who appealed to me had said , he was " not a smart fellow ...
Página 70
... cause of melancholy , es- pecially if it be immoderately used ; and Guianerius re- lates a story of two Dutchmen , whom he entertained in his own house , who drank so much wine , that in the short space of a month , they both became so ...
... cause of melancholy , es- pecially if it be immoderately used ; and Guianerius re- lates a story of two Dutchmen , whom he entertained in his own house , who drank so much wine , that in the short space of a month , they both became so ...
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... cause , I may or think of this or that ; But what or why myself best knows , Whereby I think and fear not . But thereunto I well may think The doubtful sentence of this clause , I would it were not as I think ; I would I thought it were ...
... cause , I may or think of this or that ; But what or why myself best knows , Whereby I think and fear not . But thereunto I well may think The doubtful sentence of this clause , I would it were not as I think ; I would I thought it were ...
Página 82
... causes in . There can be no setting a day for the re- quiting of benefits , as for the payment of money ; nor any estimate upon the benefits themselves ; but the whole matter rests in the conscience of both parties : and then there are ...
... causes in . There can be no setting a day for the re- quiting of benefits , as for the payment of money ; nor any estimate upon the benefits themselves ; but the whole matter rests in the conscience of both parties : and then there are ...
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Página 183 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 223 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Página 199 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 238 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 258 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Página 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Página 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...