Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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Page 9
... carry a favourite measure in the House of Commons . None under- stood better than this minister , two grand secrets of state , - the great power of principal , and the great weakness of prin- ciple . A day or two previous to the ...
... carry a favourite measure in the House of Commons . None under- stood better than this minister , two grand secrets of state , - the great power of principal , and the great weakness of prin- ciple . A day or two previous to the ...
Page 14
... carry on business with a small capital of their own , and a very large one of other men's , and a run would be equally fatal to both . They are like bakers , because while the one manufactures his bread and the other his book , neither ...
... carry on business with a small capital of their own , and a very large one of other men's , and a run would be equally fatal to both . They are like bakers , because while the one manufactures his bread and the other his book , neither ...
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... carried her extravagance so far as to send for the Mar- quis , and to release him , in the presence of Madame , from all his obligations , and to make him formally over to her . The Marquis Des Vardes deeming this to be only an artifice ...
... carried her extravagance so far as to send for the Mar- quis , and to release him , in the presence of Madame , from all his obligations , and to make him formally over to her . The Marquis Des Vardes deeming this to be only an artifice ...
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... carried to a greater height than in any other profession ; its force here is more prominent , because it is more effectual . Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves . Therefore the ...
... carried to a greater height than in any other profession ; its force here is more prominent , because it is more effectual . Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves . Therefore the ...
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... carried to a still greater excess of absurdity , when the pre- sumption of those that are blind , would insist upon leading those that can see . XLV . EVERY man , if he would be candid . and sum up his own case , as impartially as he ...
... carried to a still greater excess of absurdity , when the pre- sumption of those that are blind , would insist upon leading those that can see . XLV . EVERY man , if he would be candid . and sum up his own case , as impartially as he ...
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