The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Svazek 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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... existence . We claim praise for not having pushed our vices farther , but we feel no shame for having carried them so far ; as if there were a positive merit in sinning , provided we stop short of the ne plus ultra of turpitude . An ...
... existence . We claim praise for not having pushed our vices farther , but we feel no shame for having carried them so far ; as if there were a positive merit in sinning , provided we stop short of the ne plus ultra of turpitude . An ...
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... existence . The laws of society , and the restraints upon opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the ...
... existence . The laws of society , and the restraints upon opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the ...
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... Existence may be compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his ...
... Existence may be compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his ...
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... existence , in the chief Italian towns , manufactories of copies and counterfeits for the sole supply of England , in which happy and discerning country may be found ten times more pictures of each of the old masters , than could have ...
... existence , in the chief Italian towns , manufactories of copies and counterfeits for the sole supply of England , in which happy and discerning country may be found ten times more pictures of each of the old masters , than could have ...
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... existence ; still to propose to ourselves an ob- ject , of which every passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to ...
... existence ; still to propose to ourselves an ob- ject , of which every passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to ...
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