Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... fact is , that the whole Civil Code is now become a most unwieldy machine , without the least chance of being improved , for to those who manage its movements , its value rises in precise proportion to its complication , and to them it ...
... fact is , that the whole Civil Code is now become a most unwieldy machine , without the least chance of being improved , for to those who manage its movements , its value rises in precise proportion to its complication , and to them it ...
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... fact is , there are hundreds that want energy , for one that wants ambition , and sloth has prevented as many vices in some minds , as virtues in others . Idleness is the grand pacific ocean of life , and in that stagnant abyss , the ...
... fact is , there are hundreds that want energy , for one that wants ambition , and sloth has prevented as many vices in some minds , as virtues in others . Idleness is the grand pacific ocean of life , and in that stagnant abyss , the ...
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... fact is , that to be honest with success , requires far more talent than to be a rogue , and to be honest without success , requires far more magnanimity ; for trick is not dexterity , cunning is not skill , and mystery is not ...
... fact is , that to be honest with success , requires far more talent than to be a rogue , and to be honest without success , requires far more magnanimity ; for trick is not dexterity , cunning is not skill , and mystery is not ...
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... fact supplied the first stone of the foundation , and that alone ; but infidelity has reared the superstructure , with an industry as fertile of resource , and we might add , of inven- tion , as that of the children of Israel , who ...
... fact supplied the first stone of the foundation , and that alone ; but infidelity has reared the superstructure , with an industry as fertile of resource , and we might add , of inven- tion , as that of the children of Israel , who ...
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... facts authorise us to form is as follows : the mind is infantile with the body , it is sometimes manly in the adult , sometimes sick and debilitated by disease , sometimes enfeebled in the de- cline of life , sometimes doting in ...
... facts authorise us to form is as follows : the mind is infantile with the body , it is sometimes manly in the adult , sometimes sick and debilitated by disease , sometimes enfeebled in the de- cline of life , sometimes doting in ...
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