The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... observed in Christian practice . As a man may have a dirty body , and an undefiled mind , so may he have clean hands in a literal , and not in a metapho- rical sense . All washes and cosmetics without , he may yet labour under a moral ...
... observed in Christian practice . As a man may have a dirty body , and an undefiled mind , so may he have clean hands in a literal , and not in a metapho- rical sense . All washes and cosmetics without , he may yet labour under a moral ...
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... observed the magistrate , " who should have used this opprobrious word , for , if I have been rightly informed , you yourself had a natural child two or three years ago . " - " Yes , your Worship , " whimpered the culprit , " but mine ...
... observed the magistrate , " who should have used this opprobrious word , for , if I have been rightly informed , you yourself had a natural child two or three years ago . " - " Yes , your Worship , " whimpered the culprit , " but mine ...
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... observe the maxim of Horace - Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus . The uncharitable forget- fulness of this rule was once well reproved by Voltaire , who happened to be in company with a fanatical old lady during a violent ...
... observe the maxim of Horace - Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus . The uncharitable forget- fulness of this rule was once well reproved by Voltaire , who happened to be in company with a fanatical old lady during a violent ...
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... observed the monarch , " they mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " ADMIRATION - We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception ...
... observed the monarch , " they mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " ADMIRATION - We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception ...
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... observed- " Then at the time you and I were at school together , you were not born . " ALCHYMIST - The true possessor of the philo- sopher's stone is the miner , whose iron , copper , and tin are always convertible into the more ...
... observed- " Then at the time you and I were at school together , you were not born . " ALCHYMIST - The true possessor of the philo- sopher's stone is the miner , whose iron , copper , and tin are always convertible into the more ...
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Page 67 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 240 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Page 224 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Page 70 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 277 - I would only ask, why the civil state should be purged and restored by good and wholesome laws, made every third or fourth year in parliament assembled ; devising remedies as fast as time breedeth mischief: and contrariwise the ecclesiastical state should still continue upon the dregs of time, and receive no alteration now for these...
Page 209 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy ! S.
Page 191 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me, I am the image of God as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.
Page 240 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 190 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 114 - Every other idea, and every other end, that have been mixed with this, as the making of the church an engine, or even an ally, of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or...