Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... honour . They must be cheated of a third part of their estates ; two other thirds they must expend in vanity ; so that they remain debtors for all the necessary provisions of life , and have no way to satisfy those debts , but out of ...
... honour . They must be cheated of a third part of their estates ; two other thirds they must expend in vanity ; so that they remain debtors for all the necessary provisions of life , and have no way to satisfy those debts , but out of ...
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... honour , and indirectly calling him a coward . I cannot omit under this head what Herodotus tells us of the an- cient Persians , " That from the age of five years to twenty , they instruct their sons only in three things , to manage the ...
... honour , and indirectly calling him a coward . I cannot omit under this head what Herodotus tells us of the an- cient Persians , " That from the age of five years to twenty , they instruct their sons only in three things , to manage the ...
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... honour were purchased at a bitter penny- worth by satire , rather than by any other productions of the brain ; the world being soonest provoked to praise by lashes , as men are to love . - Swift . CLXIV . The taxes are indeed very heavy ...
... honour were purchased at a bitter penny- worth by satire , rather than by any other productions of the brain ; the world being soonest provoked to praise by lashes , as men are to love . - Swift . CLXIV . The taxes are indeed very heavy ...
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... honour is to honesty what the court of chancery is to common law . - Shenstone . CLXXV . The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves , under whatsoever form it be of government : the ...
... honour is to honesty what the court of chancery is to common law . - Shenstone . CLXXV . The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves , under whatsoever form it be of government : the ...
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... honour , which by connecting individuals formed society , and without which society can no longer subsist . - Ad- venturer . CCVII . There is nothing exerts a genius so much as writing plays ; the reason is , that the writer puts ...
... honour , which by connecting individuals formed society , and without which society can no longer subsist . - Ad- venturer . CCVII . There is nothing exerts a genius so much as writing plays ; the reason is , that the writer puts ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon LUDGATE HILL man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racters reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young