Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Svazek 3C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone ; and death , though perhaps they receive ...
... mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone ; and death , though perhaps they receive ...
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... Mankind may be divided into the merry and the serious , who , both of them , make a very good figure in the spe- cies , so long as they keep their respective humours from degenerating into the neighbouring extreme ; there being a ...
... Mankind may be divided into the merry and the serious , who , both of them , make a very good figure in the spe- cies , so long as they keep their respective humours from degenerating into the neighbouring extreme ; there being a ...
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... mankind.— Hume . LVI . How many languages are there which you do not under- stand : with regard to all these you are as if you were deaf ; yet you are indifferent about the matter . Is it then so great a misfortune to be deaf to one ...
... mankind.— Hume . LVI . How many languages are there which you do not under- stand : with regard to all these you are as if you were deaf ; yet you are indifferent about the matter . Is it then so great a misfortune to be deaf to one ...
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... mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person , they would ...
... mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person , they would ...
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... mankind had bound them- selves by an oath to do all the wickedness they can ; that they had all ( as the scripture speaks ) " sold themselves to sin : " the difference only is , that some are a little more crafty ( and but a little ...
... mankind had bound them- selves by an oath to do all the wickedness they can ; that they had all ( as the scripture speaks ) " sold themselves to sin : " the difference only is , that some are a little more crafty ( and but a little ...
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