Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter . - Cowley . VII . As true wit generally consists in the resemblance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly ...
... fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter . - Cowley . VII . As true wit generally consists in the resemblance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly ...
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... fortune in bagnios , or at the gaming - table , I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own death , and in a manner dig- ging his own grave . - Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every ...
... fortune in bagnios , or at the gaming - table , I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own death , and in a manner dig- ging his own grave . - Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every ...
Strana 52
... fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy ; for envy is a gadding passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep at home : " Non est curiosus idem sit malevolus . " - Lord ...
... fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy ; for envy is a gadding passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep at home : " Non est curiosus idem sit malevolus . " - Lord ...
Strana 59
... fortune and the malice of evil men will be sure to find him out : for which reason , says he , the soul ought to withdraw itself , into its impregnable fortress of constancy , whence if it looks with contempt on all human things , the ...
... fortune and the malice of evil men will be sure to find him out : for which reason , says he , the soul ought to withdraw itself , into its impregnable fortress of constancy , whence if it looks with contempt on all human things , the ...
Strana 63
... fortune , and nothing melts away sooner than a great one . Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.- Bruyere . CCCIX . Nothing is more precious than time , and those who mis- spend are the greatest of all prodigals ...
... fortune , and nothing melts away sooner than a great one . Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.- Bruyere . CCCIX . Nothing is more precious than time , and those who mis- spend are the greatest of all prodigals ...
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