Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 1T. Boys, 1826 - Всего страниц: 360 |
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... truth is the most precious of all blessings ; without it man is blind . it is the eye of reason . -Rousseau . XXXVIII . You cannot spend money in luxury without doing LACONICS . 7 do we want her instructions?-Ask the comedian who ...
... truth is the most precious of all blessings ; without it man is blind . it is the eye of reason . -Rousseau . XXXVIII . You cannot spend money in luxury without doing LACONICS . 7 do we want her instructions?-Ask the comedian who ...
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... truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best and the worst , there are , you say , innumerable degrees - and you are right ; but admit ...
... truth , there seems to be no part of know- ledge in fewer hands , than that of discerning when to have done . - Swift . LXXVIII . Between the best and the worst , there are , you say , innumerable degrees - and you are right ; but admit ...
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... truth . ” - Addison . LXXXI . The amiable and the severe , Mr. Burke's sublime and beautiful , by different proportions , are mixed in every character . Accordingly , as either is predominant , men imprint the passions of love or fear ...
... truth . ” - Addison . LXXXI . The amiable and the severe , Mr. Burke's sublime and beautiful , by different proportions , are mixed in every character . Accordingly , as either is predominant , men imprint the passions of love or fear ...
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... truth . For all beauty is truth . True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of architecture ; as true measures that of har- mony and music . In poetry , which is all fable , truth still is the perfection ...
... truth . For all beauty is truth . True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of architecture ; as true measures that of har- mony and music . In poetry , which is all fable , truth still is the perfection ...
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... truth so well , that it hardly ever admits of flourishing . Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless , but impairs what it would improve . — Pope . CXXXIV . A man who has been brought up among books , and ...
... truth so well , that it hardly ever admits of flourishing . Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty ; it is not only needless , but impairs what it would improve . — Pope . CXXXIV . A man who has been brought up among books , and ...
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