Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... learning in authors , and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination . - Swift . I. QUOTATION , sir , is a good thing ; there is a community of mind in it : classical quotation is the parole of literary men ...
... learning in authors , and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination . - Swift . I. QUOTATION , sir , is a good thing ; there is a community of mind in it : classical quotation is the parole of literary men ...
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... learning : it may administer matter to work in , or objects to work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man . - Selden . L. Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have ...
... learning : it may administer matter to work in , or objects to work upon ; but wit and wisdom are born with a man . - Selden . L. Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have ...
Strana 14
... learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead , it is too little to pay for the labour of separation ; and he that has been often deceived by the promise of a title , at last grows ...
... learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead , it is too little to pay for the labour of separation ; and he that has been often deceived by the promise of a title , at last grows ...
Strana 20
... learning held forth by the goose and it requires at least as many of the one to the making up of one scholar , as of the other to the composition of a man : also the valour of both is equal , and their weapons near of a size . Some ...
... learning held forth by the goose and it requires at least as many of the one to the making up of one scholar , as of the other to the composition of a man : also the valour of both is equal , and their weapons near of a size . Some ...
Strana 31
... Learning puffeth men up : words are but wind , and learning is nothing but words ; ergo , learning is nothing but wind . - Swift . CXLVIII . Methinks to kiss ladies ' hands after their lips , as some do , is like little boys , who ...
... Learning puffeth men up : words are but wind , and learning is nothing but words ; ergo , learning is nothing but wind . - Swift . CXLVIII . Methinks to kiss ladies ' hands after their lips , as some do , is like little boys , who ...
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