Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... to prove them to be fools without condescending to call them so . XX . PEDANTRY crams our heads with learned lumber , and takes out our brains to make room for it . XXI . HE that pleases himself without injuring his neigh 24 MANY THINGS.
... to prove them to be fools without condescending to call them so . XX . PEDANTRY crams our heads with learned lumber , and takes out our brains to make room for it . XXI . HE that pleases himself without injuring his neigh 24 MANY THINGS.
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... learned ; if frail they will fall , if right they will remain ; like steam they are dangerous only when pent in , restricted , and confined . These discordancies in the moral world , like the apparent war of the elements in the natural ...
... learned ; if frail they will fall , if right they will remain ; like steam they are dangerous only when pent in , restricted , and confined . These discordancies in the moral world , like the apparent war of the elements in the natural ...
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... learned foreigner , in his Preface of a most valuable work , addressed to Sir Robert Walpole , then prime minister of England . " True and extensive knowledge never was , and never can be , hurtful to the peace of society . It is ...
... learned foreigner , in his Preface of a most valuable work , addressed to Sir Robert Walpole , then prime minister of England . " True and extensive knowledge never was , and never can be , hurtful to the peace of society . It is ...
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... learned controversy on this subject , carried on by three doughty champions , each of whom with more of eru- dition , but perhaps less of gentleness , than the shepherds in Virgil , were " et cantare pares , et respondere parati . ” The ...
... learned controversy on this subject , carried on by three doughty champions , each of whom with more of eru- dition , but perhaps less of gentleness , than the shepherds in Virgil , were " et cantare pares , et respondere parati . ” The ...
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... learned professor . After death , his head was dissected , and to the confusion of all craniologists , but to the consolation of all blockheads , it was discovered that he had the thickest skull of any professor in Europe . Professor ...
... learned professor . After death , his head was dissected , and to the confusion of all craniologists , but to the consolation of all blockheads , it was discovered that he had the thickest skull of any professor in Europe . Professor ...
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