The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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Page 30
... keep our sympathies for the sufferings of the good . All men might be 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 ...
... keep our sympathies for the sufferings of the good . All men might be 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 ...
Page 35
... Keeping up appearances in this world , or becoming suddenly devout when we imagine that we may be shortly summoned to appear in the next . MORAL CHOLERA.- " It is easier , " says St. Gregory Nazianzen , " to contract the vices of others ...
... Keeping up appearances in this world , or becoming suddenly devout when we imagine that we may be shortly summoned to appear in the next . MORAL CHOLERA.- " It is easier , " says St. Gregory Nazianzen , " to contract the vices of others ...
Page 43
... keeps his memory BLACK in our souls ; " - a Stanhope expects to be wheeled down to posterity , by harnessing his name to a gig of a peculiar construction ; -a Petersham , hitting upon the easiest device by which he could prove to after ...
... keeps his memory BLACK in our souls ; " - a Stanhope expects to be wheeled down to posterity , by harnessing his name to a gig of a peculiar construction ; -a Petersham , hitting upon the easiest device by which he could prove to after ...
Page 49
... keep it . We shrug our shoulders , and forget them . Many are the writers , nevertheless , who prefer a momentary fool's cap to a distant laurel . NOVEMBER -- The period at which most English- men take leave of the sun for nine months ...
... keep it . We shrug our shoulders , and forget them . Many are the writers , nevertheless , who prefer a momentary fool's cap to a distant laurel . NOVEMBER -- The period at which most English- men take leave of the sun for nine months ...
Page 82
... keeps them at the standard best adapted for human happiness . Wherever accurate registers are kept , we know that the number of males born exceeds the females ; the ratio being between fifteen to fourteen , and twenty - five to twenty ...
... keeps them at the standard best adapted for human happiness . Wherever accurate registers are kept , we know that the number of males born exceeds the females ; the ratio being between fifteen to fourteen , and twenty - five to twenty ...
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