Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... rich , so execrably dainty , as to swallow at a morsel the nourishment of a hundred families : great are they who can behave well in these extremities : let me be nor happy nor unhappy ; that is , neither rich nor poor : I take ...
... rich , so execrably dainty , as to swallow at a morsel the nourishment of a hundred families : great are they who can behave well in these extremities : let me be nor happy nor unhappy ; that is , neither rich nor poor : I take ...
Strana 20
... rich , and what's worse was a - foot ; according to the 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 ...
... rich , and what's worse was a - foot ; according to the 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 ...
Strana 22
... been bought for gold , Esteem and love were never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would in- deed be a most mortifying evil . - Bruyere . CIV . Na- Every man is rich or poor , 22 LACONICS .
... been bought for gold , Esteem and love were never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would in- deed be a most mortifying evil . - Bruyere . CIV . Na- Every man is rich or poor , 22 LACONICS .
Strana 23
... rich or poor , according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments . Of riches as of every thing else , the hope is more than the enjoyment ; while we consider them as the means to be used at some future time for the ...
... rich or poor , according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments . Of riches as of every thing else , the hope is more than the enjoyment ; while we consider them as the means to be used at some future time for the ...
Strana 32
... rich , then show the greatness of thy for- tune ; or what is better , the greatness of thy soul , in the meekness of thy conversation ; condescend to men of low estate , support the distressed , and patronise the neglected . Be great ...
... rich , then show the greatness of thy for- tune ; or what is better , the greatness of thy soul , in the meekness of thy conversation ; condescend to men of low estate , support the distressed , and patronise the neglected . Be great ...
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