The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... mind's empty purse , as if there were money in it ! Pedantry's jargon will no more improve our understandings , than the importunate clink of a smoke - jack will fill our bellies . w The elaborate triflings of scholiasts and commen ...
... mind's empty purse , as if there were money in it ! Pedantry's jargon will no more improve our understandings , than the importunate clink of a smoke - jack will fill our bellies . w The elaborate triflings of scholiasts and commen ...
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... mind , and cherished accordingly ) is an illegitimate one . Sluggish intellects are ever the most obstinate , for that which it has cost us much to acquire , it costs us much to give up ; and the older we get , the more tenaciously we ...
... mind , and cherished accordingly ) is an illegitimate one . Sluggish intellects are ever the most obstinate , for that which it has cost us much to acquire , it costs us much to give up ; and the older we get , the more tenaciously we ...
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... minds of the dead who will never die . " In the library of the world , " says Champfort , " men have hitherto been ranged according to the form , the size , and the binding . The time is coming when they will take rank and order ...
... minds of the dead who will never die . " In the library of the world , " says Champfort , " men have hitherto been ranged according to the form , the size , and the binding . The time is coming when they will take rank and order ...
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... mind . Consider how the pangs of separation are diminished and the affections solaced , by those facilities of rapid travelling which may be said to have almost brought the utter- most ends of the earth together , and to have made each ...
... mind . Consider how the pangs of separation are diminished and the affections solaced , by those facilities of rapid travelling which may be said to have almost brought the utter- most ends of the earth together , and to have made each ...
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... mind . There is a cheap species , which prompts us to feel complacently towards our enemy when he has enabled us to make a happy re- partee . We forgive him all his previous attempts to lower us , because he has unintentionally ...
... mind . There is a cheap species , which prompts us to feel complacently towards our enemy when he has enabled us to make a happy re- partee . We forgive him all his previous attempts to lower us , because he has unintentionally ...
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