Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... equal to those undertakings in which those who have succeeded have fixed the admiration of mankind.- Hume . LVI . How many languages are there which you do not under- stand with regard to all these you are as if you were deaf ; yet you ...
... equal to those undertakings in which those who have succeeded have fixed the admiration of mankind.- Hume . LVI . How many languages are there which you do not under- stand with regard to all these you are as if you were deaf ; yet you ...
Strana 14
... equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may ...
... equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may ...
Strana 20
... equal , and their weapons near of a size . Some account says , that the writings of critics are the mirrors of learning ; by which we are to understand literally , that a writer should inspect into the books of the critics , and correct ...
... equal , and their weapons near of a size . Some account says , that the writings of critics are the mirrors of learning ; by which we are to understand literally , that a writer should inspect into the books of the critics , and correct ...
Strana 73
... equal chance in it ; he will be dis- couraged , put by , or trampled upon . But to succeed , a man , especially a young one , should have inward firm- ness , steadiness , and intrepidity ; with exterior modesty and seeming diffidence ...
... equal chance in it ; he will be dis- couraged , put by , or trampled upon . But to succeed , a man , especially a young one , should have inward firm- ness , steadiness , and intrepidity ; with exterior modesty and seeming diffidence ...
Strana 112
... equal to that of beneficence ; here the enjoyment grows on reflection , and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession.- Mackenzie . DXLIII . Cold - blooded critics , by enervate sires Scarce hammer'd out , when ...
... equal to that of beneficence ; here the enjoyment grows on reflection , and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession.- Mackenzie . DXLIII . Cold - blooded critics , by enervate sires Scarce hammer'd out , when ...
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