Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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Strana 10
... appears to rise from the field which it refreshes . - Johnson . LI . Mankind may be divided into the merry and the ... appear sometimes to be strange com- pounds of contradictory qualities : and , were the acci- dental oversights and ...
... appears to rise from the field which it refreshes . - Johnson . LI . Mankind may be divided into the merry and the ... appear sometimes to be strange com- pounds of contradictory qualities : and , were the acci- dental oversights and ...
Strana 19
... appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well ! Measure by man's desires , he cannot live long enough ; measure by his good deeds , and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deeds , and he has lived too ...
... appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well ! Measure by man's desires , he cannot live long enough ; measure by his good deeds , and he has not lived long enough ; measure by his evil deeds , and he has lived too ...
Strana 31
... appear to have no better know- ledge of truth , nor better manner of judging it , than by counting noses . By this rule , if they can poll an indif- ferent number out of a mob ; if they can produce a set of Lancashire noodles , remote ...
... appear to have no better know- ledge of truth , nor better manner of judging it , than by counting noses . By this rule , if they can poll an indif- ferent number out of a mob ; if they can produce a set of Lancashire noodles , remote ...
Strana 43
... appears glorious and admirable ; if we ap- proach it , its beauties diminish , like those of a fine piece of perspective viewed too near . - Bruyere. ́ - f CCXIV . I have run the silly rounds of pleasure , and have done with them all ...
... appears glorious and admirable ; if we ap- proach it , its beauties diminish , like those of a fine piece of perspective viewed too near . - Bruyere. ́ - f CCXIV . I have run the silly rounds of pleasure , and have done with them all ...
Strana 48
... appear a fool , a blockhead , or a knave ! To spare the grossness of the names , and to do the thing yet more severely , is to draw a full face , and make the nose and cheeks 48 LACONICS lively consciousness that gives grace to great ...
... appear a fool , a blockhead , or a knave ! To spare the grossness of the names , and to do the thing yet more severely , is to draw a full face , and make the nose and cheeks 48 LACONICS lively consciousness that gives grace to great ...
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