The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, 2 tomasWhittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 psl. |
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... better ; set the example of a hearty laugh , for this is catching , though wit is not , and make your escape while the company are exercising their risible mus- cles ; they will generally be with you , for they like to see a conqueror ...
... better ; set the example of a hearty laugh , for this is catching , though wit is not , and make your escape while the company are exercising their risible mus- cles ; they will generally be with you , for they like to see a conqueror ...
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... better compared to fullers ' earth , which , though it may seem to dirt you at first , only leaves you more pure and spotless , when it is rubbed off . LIBRARY - A precious catacomb , wherein are embalmed and preserved imperishably ...
... better compared to fullers ' earth , which , though it may seem to dirt you at first , only leaves you more pure and spotless , when it is rubbed off . LIBRARY - A precious catacomb , wherein are embalmed and preserved imperishably ...
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... better than all the world , uses himself worse ; for he lives like a pauper , in order that he may enrich his heirs , whom he naturally hates , because he knows that they hate him , and sigh for his death . In this respect , misers have ...
... better than all the world , uses himself worse ; for he lives like a pauper , in order that he may enrich his heirs , whom he naturally hates , because he knows that they hate him , and sigh for his death . In this respect , misers have ...
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... better reconciled to their fate , if they would recollect that there are two species of mis- fortune , at which we ought never to repine ; -viz . , that which we can , and that which we cannot 30 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
... better reconciled to their fate , if they would recollect that there are two species of mis- fortune , at which we ought never to repine ; -viz . , that which we can , and that which we cannot 30 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
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... better , for his voice is abso- lutely unrivalled . " MYSTERY . - To him who has been sated and disappointed by the actual and the intelligible , there is a profound charm in the unattainable and the in- scrutable . Infants stretch out ...
... better , for his voice is abso- lutely unrivalled . " MYSTERY . - To him who has been sated and disappointed by the actual and the intelligible , there is a profound charm in the unattainable and the in- scrutable . Infants stretch out ...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish To ..., 2 tomas Horace Smith Visos knygos peržiūra - 1836 |
The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish To ..., 2 tomas Horace Smith Visos knygos peržiūra - 1836 |
The Tin Trumpet Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish Horace Smith Visos knygos peržiūra - 1869 |
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