The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... human owls of modern times , when the intellectual light is spreading around them , are so far from hailing it with a blessing , that they retire to their cells and lurking places , and hoot at it as a pestilent innovation . While ...
... human owls of modern times , when the intellectual light is spreading around them , are so far from hailing it with a blessing , that they retire to their cells and lurking places , and hoot at it as a pestilent innovation . While ...
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... human race . " LAUGH a horse . - The sorry hack upon which buffoons and jesters are fain to ride home , when they want to make a retreat , and are at a loss for any other conveyance . Such Merry Andrews save their credit as the Romans ...
... human race . " LAUGH a horse . - The sorry hack upon which buffoons and jesters are fain to ride home , when they want to make a retreat , and are at a loss for any other conveyance . Such Merry Andrews save their credit as the Romans ...
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... human life ; while our capacities for taking advantage of this prolonged term have , at least , been doubled within the term men- tioned . The existence of a rational and improvable creature , is not to be measured by years and months ...
... human life ; while our capacities for taking advantage of this prolonged term have , at least , been doubled within the term men- tioned . The existence of a rational and improvable creature , is not to be measured by years and months ...
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... human and animal bones and muscles , so that the meanest artizan may have leisure for recreation and the culture of his mind . Consider how the pangs of separation are diminished and the affections solaced , by those facilities of rapid ...
... human and animal bones and muscles , so that the meanest artizan may have leisure for recreation and the culture of his mind . Consider how the pangs of separation are diminished and the affections solaced , by those facilities of rapid ...
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... human nature . Like the workers of tapestry , who always behold the wrong side , they themselves may see nothing but unfinished outlines , coarse materials , crooked ends , and glaring defects , and yet produce a portrait which , to ...
... human nature . Like the workers of tapestry , who always behold the wrong side , they themselves may see nothing but unfinished outlines , coarse materials , crooked ends , and glaring defects , and yet produce a portrait which , to ...
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