Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... follow them through the paths of error , and defend paradoxes merely to be singular in defending them . - Mackenzie . DCCCXXXVII . Armies , though always the supporters and tools of ab- solute power , for the time being , are always the ...
... follow them through the paths of error , and defend paradoxes merely to be singular in defending them . - Mackenzie . DCCCXXXVII . Armies , though always the supporters and tools of ab- solute power , for the time being , are always the ...
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... follow , it will at last surely conduct us to futility and disappointment . The wise bustle and laugh as they walk in the pageant , but fools bustle and are important ; and this , probably , is all the difference between them ...
... follow , it will at last surely conduct us to futility and disappointment . The wise bustle and laugh as they walk in the pageant , but fools bustle and are important ; and this , probably , is all the difference between them ...
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... follow pleasure merely , we are disgusted , and change from one sort to another ; condemning that at one time , which at another we earnestly approve ; and never judging equally of happiness , whilst we follow passion and mere humour ...
... follow pleasure merely , we are disgusted , and change from one sort to another ; condemning that at one time , which at another we earnestly approve ; and never judging equally of happiness , whilst we follow passion and mere humour ...
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... follow'd , and by all deny'd . What numbers are there , which at once pursue Praise , and the glory to contemn it , too ? MXXXV . Young . He who freely praises what he means to purchase , and he who enumerates the faults of what he ...
... follow'd , and by all deny'd . What numbers are there , which at once pursue Praise , and the glory to contemn it , too ? MXXXV . Young . He who freely praises what he means to purchase , and he who enumerates the faults of what he ...
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... the current still , and follow fortune . MXLVII . Franklin . There is no greater monster in being , than a very ill man of great parts . He lives like a man in a palsy , with one side of him dead . While , perhaps , LACONICS . 215.
... the current still , and follow fortune . MXLVII . Franklin . There is no greater monster in being , than a very ill man of great parts . He lives like a man in a palsy , with one side of him dead . While , perhaps , LACONICS . 215.
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