Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... called the ghost of wit , delighting to walk after the death of its body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best ...
... called the ghost of wit , delighting to walk after the death of its body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best ...
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... called away never so little , he must begin again . — Lord Bacon . CXLIV . Deference is the most complicate , the most indirect , and the most elegant of all compliments . - Shenstone . CXLV . Excellence is never granted to man but as ...
... called away never so little , he must begin again . — Lord Bacon . CXLIV . Deference is the most complicate , the most indirect , and the most elegant of all compliments . - Shenstone . CXLV . Excellence is never granted to man but as ...
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... called a very good - natured , but at the same time is thought a very silly , young fellow . - Chesterfield CLXXXII . It hath been observed both among ancients and mo- derns , that a grey critic has been certainly a green one , the ...
... called a very good - natured , but at the same time is thought a very silly , young fellow . - Chesterfield CLXXXII . It hath been observed both among ancients and mo- derns , that a grey critic has been certainly a green one , the ...
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... called upon , never re- collects to say any thing of himself . - Lavater . CCXXXII . It may happen that good is produced by vice , but not as vice ; for instance , a robber may take money from its owner , and give it to one who will ...
... called upon , never re- collects to say any thing of himself . - Lavater . CCXXXII . It may happen that good is produced by vice , but not as vice ; for instance , a robber may take money from its owner , and give it to one who will ...
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... called the high - way to posts and ho- nours , and there is a cross and by - way , which is much the shortest . - Bruyere . CCXXXVIII . How easy is it to call rogue and villain , and that wittily ! but how hard to make a man appear a ...
... called the high - way to posts and ho- nours , and there is a cross and by - way , which is much the shortest . - Bruyere . CCXXXVIII . How easy is it to call rogue and villain , and that wittily ! but how hard to make a man appear a ...
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