Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... kind ; but at best are an insipid fruit while the northern geniuses are like melons , of which not one in fifty is good ; but when it is so , it is an exquisite relish . - Berkeley . B IV . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with ...
... kind ; but at best are an insipid fruit while the northern geniuses are like melons , of which not one in fifty is good ; but when it is so , it is an exquisite relish . - Berkeley . B IV . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with ...
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... kind , ubi est non potest diu celari : it will be discovered , and nothing can depreciate it , but a man's exhibiting it himself . It may not always be re- warded as ought ; but it will always be known.➡ Chesterfield . XXXIII . Reserve ...
... kind , ubi est non potest diu celari : it will be discovered , and nothing can depreciate it , but a man's exhibiting it himself . It may not always be re- warded as ought ; but it will always be known.➡ Chesterfield . XXXIII . Reserve ...
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... kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it . - Swift . LV . A man's genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown to himself as to others ; and it is only after frequent trials ...
... kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it . - Swift . LV . A man's genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown to himself as to others ; and it is only after frequent trials ...
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... kind or another . The venestums , the honestums , the de- corum of things , will force its way . - Shaftesbury . C. There is nothing so bad which will not admit of some- thing to be said in its defence . - Sterne . CI . Custom ...
... kind or another . The venestums , the honestums , the de- corum of things , will force its way . - Shaftesbury . C. There is nothing so bad which will not admit of some- thing to be said in its defence . - Sterne . CI . Custom ...
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... kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of trees ought to encourage themselves , D 2 LACONICS . 27 afford, did not those ...
... kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of trees ought to encourage themselves , D 2 LACONICS . 27 afford, did not those ...
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