The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... ourselves . There was some philosophy , there- fore , in the hen - pecked husband , who being asked why he had placed himself so completely under the government of his wife , answered , " To avoid the worse slavery of being under my own ...
... ourselves . There was some philosophy , there- fore , in the hen - pecked husband , who being asked why he had placed himself so completely under the government of his wife , answered , " To avoid the worse slavery of being under my own ...
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... ourselves . Alleged want of memory is a most convenient refuge for our self - love , since we can always throw it as a cloak over our ignorance . It is astonishing how much people are in the habit of forgetting what they never knew ...
... ourselves . Alleged want of memory is a most convenient refuge for our self - love , since we can always throw it as a cloak over our ignorance . It is astonishing how much people are in the habit of forgetting what they never knew ...
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... ourselves . Our own head and heart are the heaven and earth which we accuse , and make responsible for all our calamities . The prudent make the reverses by which they have been overthrown supply a basis for the restoration of their ...
... ourselves . Our own head and heart are the heaven and earth which we accuse , and make responsible for all our calamities . The prudent make the reverses by which they have been overthrown supply a basis for the restoration of their ...
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... much for the value of the commodity , as , because it makes others appear su- perior to ourselves . Being defrauded would be no- thing 2 34 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR , the enthusiastic and the indifferent, or those who ...
... much for the value of the commodity , as , because it makes others appear su- perior to ourselves . Being defrauded would be no- thing 2 34 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR , the enthusiastic and the indifferent, or those who ...
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... ourselves , during our whole life , to the attacks of the other . One of our jails was lately emptied because it contained a single case of 1 Facilius est vitium contrahere quam virtutem impertire ; quemad- modum facilius est morbo ...
... ourselves , during our whole life , to the attacks of the other . One of our jails was lately emptied because it contained a single case of 1 Facilius est vitium contrahere quam virtutem impertire ; quemad- modum facilius est morbo ...
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