Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive in- struction with gratitude , as for instance a know- ledge of the languages , or of the mathematics , because his pride is not wounded by an admission of INTRODUCTION ...
... There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive in- struction with gratitude , as for instance a know- ledge of the languages , or of the mathematics , because his pride is not wounded by an admission of INTRODUCTION ...
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... receive . XXXI . PHILOSOPHY is to Poetry , what old age is to youth ; and the stern truths of Philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one , as the chilling testimonies of expe- rience are to the hopes of the other . XXXII . NO ...
... receive . XXXI . PHILOSOPHY is to Poetry , what old age is to youth ; and the stern truths of Philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one , as the chilling testimonies of expe- rience are to the hopes of the other . XXXII . NO ...
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... received a wound . XLI . WHAT Fontenelle said of cuckoldom , might more truly be said of 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 ...
... received a wound . XLI . WHAT Fontenelle said of cuckoldom , might more truly be said of 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 ...
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... receive the full measure of the punishment of their folly , their profligacy , or their vice ; nay , they often suffer more than other men , not because they are as amenable as their inferiors , but because they IN FEW WORDS . 29.
... receive the full measure of the punishment of their folly , their profligacy , or their vice ; nay , they often suffer more than other men , not because they are as amenable as their inferiors , but because they IN FEW WORDS . 29.
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... received three distinct bodies , the last of which shall not contain one individual atom that composed the first . But those who would persuade us that mind is an absolute and component part of the body , so completely ingrafted as it ...
... received three distinct bodies , the last of which shall not contain one individual atom that composed the first . But those who would persuade us that mind is an absolute and component part of the body , so completely ingrafted as it ...
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