Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... never been introduced . But if you propose to teach him any thing new concerning himself the world , and those who live in it , the case is widely altered . He finds that he has been conver- sant all his life with these things ...
... never been introduced . But if you propose to teach him any thing new concerning himself the world , and those who live in it , the case is widely altered . He finds that he has been conver- sant all his life with these things ...
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... never reject it , if the de- ductions proposed to be drawn from it , appear to me to be just . I have consulted authors ancient and modern on this subject , and they seem to be all agreed that the sententious , short and apothegmatic ...
... never reject it , if the de- ductions proposed to be drawn from it , appear to me to be just . I have consulted authors ancient and modern on this subject , and they seem to be all agreed that the sententious , short and apothegmatic ...
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... never have the same excuse for such a measure , that the Dutch had for destroying their spices - the fear of a glut . Dunces , indeed , give antithesis no quarter , and to say the truth , it gives them none ; if indeed it be a fault ...
... never have the same excuse for such a measure , that the Dutch had for destroying their spices - the fear of a glut . Dunces , indeed , give antithesis no quarter , and to say the truth , it gives them none ; if indeed it be a fault ...
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... never raises for want of sup- plies , since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast , and a surfeit than a starvation . Inanition may cause it to die a slow death , but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one . We should have as ...
... never raises for want of sup- plies , since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast , and a surfeit than a starvation . Inanition may cause it to die a slow death , but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one . We should have as ...
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Charles Caleb Colton. even without the thunder , but never the thunder without the lightning . X. LET us so employ our youth that the very old age , which will deprive us of attention from the eyes of the women , shall enable us to ...
Charles Caleb Colton. even without the thunder , but never the thunder without the lightning . X. LET us so employ our youth that the very old age , which will deprive us of attention from the eyes of the women , shall enable us to ...
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