Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... fame , is far more nobly occupied than he who is industrious in order that the perishable children of his body should inherit wealth . This reflection will help us to a solution of that question that has been so often and so ...
... fame , is far more nobly occupied than he who is industrious in order that the perishable children of his body should inherit wealth . This reflection will help us to a solution of that question that has been so often and so ...
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... fame ; it is nothing if you do not know it , and very little if you do . Nor does the similarity end here ; for in both cases , the principals , though first concerned , are usually the very parties that are last informed . XLII . AN ...
... fame ; it is nothing if you do not know it , and very little if you do . Nor does the similarity end here ; for in both cases , the principals , though first concerned , are usually the very parties that are last informed . XLII . AN ...
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... fame which he has persuaded himself that he deserves . He often draws indeed too largely upon posterity , but even here he is safe ; for should the bills be dishonoured , this cannot happen until that debt which cancels all others ...
... fame which he has persuaded himself that he deserves . He often draws indeed too largely upon posterity , but even here he is safe ; for should the bills be dishonoured , this cannot happen until that debt which cancels all others ...
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... fame , but very cheap like all other articles , that are so doubly unfortunate as to be not only stale , but a glut . LXXVI . THE conduct of corporate bodies sometimes would incline one to suspect that criminality is , with them , a mat ...
... fame , but very cheap like all other articles , that are so doubly unfortunate as to be not only stale , but a glut . LXXVI . THE conduct of corporate bodies sometimes would incline one to suspect that criminality is , with them , a mat ...
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... both our fortune and our fame . In the middle classes there is a measure of judgment fully equal to any demands we can make upon it -- a judgment not too fastidious from vanity , nor too insensible , from ignorance ; and 58 MANY THINGS .
... both our fortune and our fame . In the middle classes there is a measure of judgment fully equal to any demands we can make upon it -- a judgment not too fastidious from vanity , nor too insensible , from ignorance ; and 58 MANY THINGS .
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