Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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Strana 2
... never was any party , faction , sect , or cabal , whatsoever , in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead . However , such instruments are necessary to politicians ; and ...
... never was any party , faction , sect , or cabal , whatsoever , in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead . However , such instruments are necessary to politicians ; and ...
Strana 14
... never equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of ...
... never equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of ...
Strana 18
... never to recover either the wounds , or the anguish of heart which they have occasioned . - Sterne . LXXXVIII . ; Perhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be ...
... never to recover either the wounds , or the anguish of heart which they have occasioned . - Sterne . LXXXVIII . ; Perhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be ...
Strana 19
... never be used but in a select company of learned men . The didactic should seldom be used , and then only by judi- cious aged persons , or those who are eminent for piety or wisdom . No style is more extensively acceptable than -the ...
... never be used but in a select company of learned men . The didactic should seldom be used , and then only by judi- cious aged persons , or those who are eminent for piety or wisdom . No style is more extensively acceptable than -the ...
Strana 27
... never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse ; always harder . A young liar will be an old one ; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older . Chesterfield . CXXVII . Every true critic is a hero born , descending ...
... never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse ; always harder . A young liar will be an old one ; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older . Chesterfield . CXXVII . Every true critic is a hero born , descending ...
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