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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... compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain , but commits its devastation in the vale . VÍ . GREAT minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause , without obtaining it , than obtain , without deserving it ; if ...
... compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain , but commits its devastation in the vale . VÍ . GREAT minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause , without obtaining it , than obtain , without deserving it ; if ...
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... compared to po- tatoes , all that is good of them is under the ground ; perhaps it is but fair that nobility should have descended to them , since they never could have raised themselves to it . IX . AN upright minister asks , what ...
... compared to po- tatoes , all that is good of them is under the ground ; perhaps it is but fair that nobility should have descended to them , since they never could have raised themselves to it . IX . AN upright minister asks , what ...
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... compared to a man walk- ing in a fog ; every thing immediately around him , or in contact with him , appears sufficiently clear and luminous ; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre , all is mist , and error and ...
... compared to a man walk- ing in a fog ; every thing immediately around him , or in contact with him , appears sufficiently clear and luminous ; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre , all is mist , and error and ...
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... compared to those fogs , which the sun raises up from a swamp , merely to obscure the beams , which were the cause of their elevation . LXVI . SOME men who know that they are great , are so very haughty withal and insufferable , that ...
... compared to those fogs , which the sun raises up from a swamp , merely to obscure the beams , which were the cause of their elevation . LXVI . SOME men who know that they are great , are so very haughty withal and insufferable , that ...
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... compared to the stars , they are discoverable by darkness , and hidden only by light . LXX . SOME one , in casting up his accounts , put down a very large sum per annum for his idleness . But there is another account more awful than ...
... compared to the stars , they are discoverable by darkness , and hidden only by light . LXX . SOME one , in casting up his accounts , put down a very large sum per annum for his idleness . But there is another account more awful than ...
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