Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... merit of any 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 ...
... merit of any 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 ...
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... merit than that of contributing to supply their neighbours with the means of sucking smoke through a tube of clay ; and others raising contributions upon those , whose elegance disdains the grossness of smoky luxury , by grinding the ...
... merit than that of contributing to supply their neighbours with the means of sucking smoke through a tube of clay ; and others raising contributions upon those , whose elegance disdains the grossness of smoky luxury , by grinding the ...
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... merit , and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its fa- vour had Cæsar or Cromwell exchanged countries , the one might have been a sergeant and the other an excise- man . So it is with wit , which generally succeeds more ...
... merit , and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its fa- vour had Cæsar or Cromwell exchanged countries , the one might have been a sergeant and the other an excise- man . So it is with wit , which generally succeeds more ...
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... merit , takes a new title , and ranks himself higher . - Adventurer . CLXXXVIII . All smatt'rers are more brisk and pert , Than those that understand an art ; As little sparkles shine more bright Than glowing coals that give them light ...
... merit , takes a new title , and ranks himself higher . - Adventurer . CLXXXVIII . All smatt'rers are more brisk and pert , Than those that understand an art ; As little sparkles shine more bright Than glowing coals that give them light ...
Strana 40
... merit , as being likely to eclipse that of others.- Bruyere . CXCIX . Every sect has a recipe . When you know it , you are master of nature : you solve all her phenomena : you see all her designs , and can account for all her operations ...
... merit , as being likely to eclipse that of others.- Bruyere . CXCIX . Every sect has a recipe . When you know it , you are master of nature : you solve all her phenomena : you see all her designs , and can account for all her operations ...
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