The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... pride , as his friends were weeping around his death bed , " if I were to die ten times over , I should never make you cry half so much as I have made you laugh . " " Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est , " says an anti - risible reader ...
... pride , as his friends were weeping around his death bed , " if I were to die ten times over , I should never make you cry half so much as I have made you laugh . " " Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est , " says an anti - risible reader ...
Page 36
... pride ; Security , danger ; and Fami- liarity , contempt . And , on the contrary , four bad mothers have produced as many good daughters , for Astronomy is the offspring of astrology ; Chymistry of alchemy ; Freedom , of oppression ...
... pride ; Security , danger ; and Fami- liarity , contempt . And , on the contrary , four bad mothers have produced as many good daughters , for Astronomy is the offspring of astrology ; Chymistry of alchemy ; Freedom , of oppression ...
Page 57
... pride that licks the dust . ” The greater the importance we attach to our opinions , the greater our intolerance , which is wrong , even when we are right , and doubly so when we are in error ; so that persecution for opinion's sake ...
... pride that licks the dust . ” The greater the importance we attach to our opinions , the greater our intolerance , which is wrong , even when we are right , and doubly so when we are in error ; so that persecution for opinion's sake ...
Page 90
... PRIDE . " My brethren , " said Swift in a sermon , " there are three sorts of pride - of birth , of riches , and of talents . I shall not now speak of 90 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
... PRIDE . " My brethren , " said Swift in a sermon , " there are three sorts of pride - of birth , of riches , and of talents . I shall not now speak of 90 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
Page 91
... pride , what we cut off from less favourite faults , we are merely taking our errors out of one pocket to put them into another . PRIESTHOOD . When the word of God , chained up in the Latin tongue , was a sealed book to the public ...
... pride , what we cut off from less favourite faults , we are merely taking our errors out of one pocket to put them into another . PRIESTHOOD . When the word of God , chained up in the Latin tongue , was a sealed book to the public ...
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