Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From the 8th London EdLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 267 pages |
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... gained by the wisdom of his friends , and by the folly of his enemies , and our Brobdignag will often become a Lilliputian . I think it is Voltaire who observes , that it was very fortunate for Cromwell , that he appeared upon the stage ...
... gained by the wisdom of his friends , and by the folly of his enemies , and our Brobdignag will often become a Lilliputian . I think it is Voltaire who observes , that it was very fortunate for Cromwell , that he appeared upon the stage ...
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... gained more pounds by publishing Milton's works , than he ever gained pence by writing them ; and Garrick has reaped a richer harvest in a single night , by acting in one play of Shakespeare's than that poet himself obtained by the ...
... gained more pounds by publishing Milton's works , than he ever gained pence by writing them ; and Garrick has reaped a richer harvest in a single night , by acting in one play of Shakespeare's than that poet himself obtained by the ...
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... gaining all we want , we have only reached a pinnacle , where we have nothing to hope , but every thing to fear . XXXVIII . WE should justly ridicule a general , who , just be- fore an action , should suddenly disarm his men , and ...
... gaining all we want , we have only reached a pinnacle , where we have nothing to hope , but every thing to fear . XXXVIII . WE should justly ridicule a general , who , just be- fore an action , should suddenly disarm his men , and ...
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... gained them , had they been held on merely by pieces of sticking plaister , could not have sat more loosely on their shoulders . Dema- gogues sprung up like mushrooms , and the crop seemed to be fecundated by blood ; although it ...
... gained them , had they been held on merely by pieces of sticking plaister , could not have sat more loosely on their shoulders . Dema- gogues sprung up like mushrooms , and the crop seemed to be fecundated by blood ; although it ...
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... gained , but to be defeated , where every thing is to be lost ; they will be outdone by men of less brilliant , but more convertible qualifications , and whose strength , in one point , is not counterbalanced by any disproportion in ...
... gained , but to be defeated , where every thing is to be lost ; they will be outdone by men of less brilliant , but more convertible qualifications , and whose strength , in one point , is not counterbalanced by any disproportion in ...
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