Lacon, Or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkWilliam Gowans, 1855 - 493 pages |
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... fact , the press was never so powerful in quantity , and so weak in quality , as at the present day ; if ap- plied to it , the simile of Virgil must be reversed , Non trunco sed frondibus efficit umbram . * It is in literature as in ...
... fact , the press was never so powerful in quantity , and so weak in quality , as at the present day ; if ap- plied to it , the simile of Virgil must be reversed , Non trunco sed frondibus efficit umbram . * It is in literature as in ...
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... fact addressed to all the world ; for although the propor- tion of those who do think be extremely small , yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number . In the present rage for all that is marvellous and ...
... fact addressed to all the world ; for although the propor- tion of those who do think be extremely small , yet every individual flatters himself that he is one of the number . In the present rage for all that is marvellous and ...
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... fact , every au- thor is a far better judge of the pains that his efforts have cost him , than any reader can possibly be ; but to what purpose he has taken those pains , this is a question on which his readers will not allow the au ...
... fact , every au- thor is a far better judge of the pains that his efforts have cost him , than any reader can possibly be ; but to what purpose he has taken those pains , this is a question on which his readers will not allow the au ...
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... facts on oath , -that all of them wished to be so examined , if required , and lastly , that they all agreed , without one ex- ception , in this particular , that their night's rest was invariably destroyed by violent blows from some ...
... facts on oath , -that all of them wished to be so examined , if required , and lastly , that they all agreed , without one ex- ception , in this particular , that their night's rest was invariably destroyed by violent blows from some ...
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... facts that have led me to the above conclusions , to detail them would be wholly unnecessary ; but here I must once for all observe , that I by no means wish it to be conceived that these mysterious circumstances never can or will be ...
... facts that have led me to the above conclusions , to detail them would be wholly unnecessary ; but here I must once for all observe , that I by no means wish it to be conceived that these mysterious circumstances never can or will be ...
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