Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens . To change one's country then is little more than to remove from one street to another . Man is not a plant , rooted to a certain spot of earth : all soils and all ...
... tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens . To change one's country then is little more than to remove from one street to another . Man is not a plant , rooted to a certain spot of earth : all soils and all ...
Strana 16
... tell a man he lies , though but in jest , is an affront that nothing but blood can expiate . The reason perhaps may be because no other vice implies a want of courage so much as the making of a lie ; and therefore telling a man he lies ...
... tell a man he lies , though but in jest , is an affront that nothing but blood can expiate . The reason perhaps may be because no other vice implies a want of courage so much as the making of a lie ; and therefore telling a man he lies ...
Strana 59
... tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and .delusion ? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , since it makes me both the happier and better man . — Addison . CCLXXXVI ...
... tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and .delusion ? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news ? If it is a dream , let me enjoy it , since it makes me both the happier and better man . — Addison . CCLXXXVI ...
Strana 81
... Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " One may fairly suppose that a man who makes a knave or fool his friend , has something very bad to do or conceal . But at the same time that you carefully decline the ...
... Tell me with whom you live , and I will tell you who you are . " One may fairly suppose that a man who makes a knave or fool his friend , has something very bad to do or conceal . But at the same time that you carefully decline the ...
Strana 83
... the as- surance to tell his father , he has lived too long ; and a husband the privilege of talking of his second wife before his first . But let the airy gentleman , who LACONICS . 83 them not; and our crimes would despair, if ...
... the as- surance to tell his father , he has lived too long ; and a husband the privilege of talking of his second wife before his first . But let the airy gentleman , who LACONICS . 83 them not; and our crimes would despair, if ...
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