Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1 |
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... judge be suffered to mark , in this manner , what has been done amiss — what 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 ...
... judge be suffered to mark , in this manner , what has been done amiss — what 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 ...
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... judge , therefore , of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice , but adver- sity doth ...
... judge , therefore , of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice , but adver- sity doth ...
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... judge whether he would be contented to be hanged , were he in his case , he would answer no . Then , says the prisoner , do as you would be done to : neither of them must do as ' private men , but the judge must do by him as they have ...
... judge whether he would be contented to be hanged , were he in his case , he would answer no . Then , says the prisoner , do as you would be done to : neither of them must do as ' private men , but the judge must do by him as they have ...
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... Judges and senates have been bought for gold , Esteem and love were never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would in- deed be a most mortifying evil . - Bruyere . CIV . Na- Every man is rich or ...
... Judges and senates have been bought for gold , Esteem and love were never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would in- deed be a most mortifying evil . - Bruyere . CIV . Na- Every man is rich or ...
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... judge who should take up a resolution to hang all men that come before him upon a trial . - Swift . CCXLV . Ceremony keeps up things : ' tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit , or some excellent water ; without it the water were spilt ...
... judge who should take up a resolution to hang all men that come before him upon a trial . - Swift . CCXLV . Ceremony keeps up things : ' tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit , or some excellent water ; without it the water were spilt ...
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