Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... give us nothing but conjecture , as for speculation to give us nothing but truth . In this walk of science , however , if we know but little , upon that little we are becoming gradually more agreed ; perhaps we have discovered that the ...
... give us nothing but conjecture , as for speculation to give us nothing but truth . In this walk of science , however , if we know but little , upon that little we are becoming gradually more agreed ; perhaps we have discovered that the ...
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... give antithesis no quarter , and to say the truth , it gives them none ; if indeed it be a fault , it is one of the very few which such persons may exclaim against with some justice , because they were never yet found ca- pable of ...
... give antithesis no quarter , and to say the truth , it gives them none ; if indeed it be a fault , it is one of the very few which such persons may exclaim against with some justice , because they were never yet found ca- pable of ...
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... gives momentum to the activity of the knave , but it chills the honest man , and makes him almost weary of his calling : and all that cor- ruption attracts , it also retains , for it is easier not to fall , than only to fall once , and ...
... gives momentum to the activity of the knave , but it chills the honest man , and makes him almost weary of his calling : and all that cor- ruption attracts , it also retains , for it is easier not to fall , than only to fall once , and ...
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... give us much noise and many words , but little argument and less wit , and who are most loud when they are the least lucid , should take a lesson from the great volume of Nature ; she often gives us the lightning even without the ...
... give us much noise and many words , but little argument and less wit , and who are most loud when they are the least lucid , should take a lesson from the great volume of Nature ; she often gives us the lightning even without the ...
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... give him up , " but 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 ...
... give him up , " but 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 ...
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