Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who ThinkLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837 - 453 psl. |
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... never so powerful in quantity , and so weak in quality , as at the present day ; if applied to it , the simile of Virgil must be reversed , " Non trunco sed frondibus efficit Umbram . " It is in Literature as in Finance - much Paper and ...
... never so powerful in quantity , and so weak in quality , as at the present day ; if applied to it , the simile of Virgil must be reversed , " Non trunco sed frondibus efficit Umbram . " It is in Literature as in Finance - much Paper and ...
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... never yet known to have the slightest compassion for those authors who have deprived themselves of sleep , in order to procure it for their readers . With books , as with companions , it is of more consequence to know which to avoid ...
... never yet known to have the slightest compassion for those authors who have deprived themselves of sleep , in order to procure it for their readers . With books , as with companions , it is of more consequence to know which to avoid ...
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... never could have raised themselves to it . IX . AN upright minister asks , what recommends a man ; a corrupt minister who . X. THE first consideration with a knave , is how to help himself , and the second , how to do it , with an ...
... never could have raised themselves to it . IX . AN upright minister asks , what recommends a man ; a corrupt minister who . X. THE first consideration with a knave , is how to help himself , and the second , how to do it , with an ...
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... never so great , as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason ; it is from such a combination , like that of Bucephalus , reined in by Alexander , that the most powerful efforts have been produced . And be it remembered ...
... never so great , as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason ; it is from such a combination , like that of Bucephalus , reined in by Alexander , that the most powerful efforts have been produced . And be it remembered ...
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... never in the wrong . Such high pretensions are extremely awkward wherever the points of difference happen to be more nu- merous than those of agreement . A safer mode of proceed- ing would be to propose with diffidence , to conjecture ...
... never in the wrong . Such high pretensions are extremely awkward wherever the points of difference happen to be more nu- merous than those of agreement . A safer mode of proceed- ing would be to propose with diffidence , to conjecture ...
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2d Edition admiration affirm ancient attempt Author beauty body cause character Christian cloth common danger death despise discovery Doctor Johnson earth enemies England Engravings envy error evil fear fool FREDERIKA BREMER genius give greatest H.M. Treasury hand happens happiness heaven highwayman HISTORY honour HOWITT human ignorance illustrated improved J. C. LOUDON JOHN LINDLEY Juvenal king knave knowledge labour less liberty live London Lord Lord Peterborough MARY HOWITT matter means ment mind mode moral morocco nation nature never numerous object observed occasion opinion ourselves passions perhaps philosopher Plates pleasure poet possess post 8vo praise present pride principle produce prove readers reason receive religion replied revenge reward SAMUEL LAING seldom society talent things Thomas Creswick THOMAS KEIGHTLEY tion TREATISE true truth vice Vignette Titles virtue vols whole WILLIAM HOWITT wisdom wise Woodcuts write
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