Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 1T. Boys, 1826 - Всего страниц: 360 |
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... character , as they certainly are , it belongs to the illiterate as well as the learned ; and St. James's itself may boast of producing as arrant pedants as were ever sent forth from a college . — B . Thornton . XXXV . Pride may be ...
... character , as they certainly are , it belongs to the illiterate as well as the learned ; and St. James's itself may boast of producing as arrant pedants as were ever sent forth from a college . — B . Thornton . XXXV . Pride may be ...
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... character of a common slanderer as rare and difficult a production in nature , as that of a great genius , which seldom happens above once in an age . - Sterne . XLVIII . Some reserve is a debt to prudence , as freedom and simplicity of ...
... character of a common slanderer as rare and difficult a production in nature , as that of a great genius , which seldom happens above once in an age . - Sterne . XLVIII . Some reserve is a debt to prudence , as freedom and simplicity of ...
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... character so unexceptionable as to be able to stand before him ? -Sterne . LIII . There is a time which precedes reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the memory retains no vestiges . There is a ...
... character so unexceptionable as to be able to stand before him ? -Sterne . LIII . There is a time which precedes reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the memory retains no vestiges . There is a ...
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... character . Had a man the best intentions in the world , and were the farthest removed from all injustice and violence , he would never be able to make himself be much regarded , without a moderate share , at least , of parts and ...
... character . Had a man the best intentions in the world , and were the farthest removed from all injustice and violence , he would never be able to make himself be much regarded , without a moderate share , at least , of parts and ...
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... that highest species , honesty itself , in view ; and instead of outward forms or symmetries , is struck with that of inward character , the harmony and numbers of c 2 LACONICS . 15 the hand of the master. Some of which may ...
... that highest species , honesty itself , in view ; and instead of outward forms or symmetries , is struck with that of inward character , the harmony and numbers of c 2 LACONICS . 15 the hand of the master. Some of which may ...
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