Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Svazek 3C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... reason alleged for the destruction of frogs , is because they are like toads . - Pope . XXXI . Vanity bids all her sons to be generous and brave-- and her daughters to be chaste and courteous . - But why do we want her instructions ...
... reason alleged for the destruction of frogs , is because they are like toads . - Pope . XXXI . Vanity bids all her sons to be generous and brave-- and her daughters to be chaste and courteous . - But why do we want her instructions ...
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... nobody . - Zimmerman . XXXVII . General , abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings ; without it man is blind . it is the eye of reason . -Rousseau . XXXVIII . You cannot spend money in luxury without doing LACONICS . 7.
... nobody . - Zimmerman . XXXVII . General , abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings ; without it man is blind . it is the eye of reason . -Rousseau . XXXVIII . You cannot spend money in luxury without doing LACONICS . 7.
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... reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the memory retains no vestiges . There is a second term , when reason discovers itself , when it is formed , and might act , if it were not hoodwinked as it were ...
... reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the memory retains no vestiges . There is a second term , when reason discovers itself , when it is formed , and might act , if it were not hoodwinked as it were ...
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... reason doubted , whether the quality of retention be so generally bestowed , and whether a secret has not some subtile volatility by which it escapes , imperceptibly , at the smallest vent , or some power of fermentation , by which it ...
... reason doubted , whether the quality of retention be so generally bestowed , and whether a secret has not some subtile volatility by which it escapes , imperceptibly , at the smallest vent , or some power of fermentation , by which it ...
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... 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- rately stored his mind with images ...
... 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- rately stored his mind with images ...
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