Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... present moment and next quarter - day . The politician would be contented to lose three years in his life , could he place things in the posture which he fancies they will stand in after such a revolution of time . The lover would be ...
... present moment and next quarter - day . The politician would be contented to lose three years in his life , could he place things in the posture which he fancies they will stand in after such a revolution of time . The lover would be ...
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... present perfection of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining . - Burke . XXII . Those ears that are offended by the sweetly wild notes of the thrush , the blackbird , and the nightingale , the distant cawing of the rook , the ...
... present perfection of gunnery , cannoneering , bombarding , mining . - Burke . XXII . Those ears that are offended by the sweetly wild notes of the thrush , the blackbird , and the nightingale , the distant cawing of the rook , the ...
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... present life his happi- ness arises from the subduing of his desires , it will arise in the next from the gratification of them . - Addison , XLIV . To be a beggar , it will cost the richest candidate every groat he is worth ; so ...
... present life his happi- ness arises from the subduing of his desires , it will arise in the next from the gratification of them . - Addison , XLIV . To be a beggar , it will cost the richest candidate every groat he is worth ; so ...
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... present , it were pity , methinks , to reason them out of any imagined advantage in reversion . - Fitzosborne . LXVIII . The continued multiplication of books not only distracts choice , but disappoints inquiry . To him that hath mode ...
... present , it were pity , methinks , to reason them out of any imagined advantage in reversion . - Fitzosborne . LXVIII . The continued multiplication of books not only distracts choice , but disappoints inquiry . To him that hath mode ...
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... present modes of life , he should not have seen me . Oh ! now I have hit on it , it was that I might see him in the same coach with the duke of Bruyere . XCIII . Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with ...
... present modes of life , he should not have seen me . Oh ! now I have hit on it , it was that I might see him in the same coach with the duke of Bruyere . XCIII . Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with ...
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