The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... sense . A mere scholar is generally known by his unacquaintance with everything but languages , which have so filled his head , that they have left room for nothing else . He mistakes the steps for the temple of Minerva ; the shrine for ...
... sense . A mere scholar is generally known by his unacquaintance with everything but languages , which have so filled his head , that they have left room for nothing else . He mistakes the steps for the temple of Minerva ; the shrine for ...
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... sense and reflection , may well be thrown overboard , when many a member of our Mechanics ' Institutes , possesses useful knowledge that might puzzle a whole convent of college monks . No man Of all learning the most difficult ...
... sense and reflection , may well be thrown overboard , when many a member of our Mechanics ' Institutes , possesses useful knowledge that might puzzle a whole convent of college monks . No man Of all learning the most difficult ...
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... sense of man addressed , Ye will not see the wish to bless With universal happiness , Nor judge that mortals best fulfil A bountiful Creator's will , When , with a cheerful gratitude , They taste the pleasures He has strew'd , What can ...
... sense of man addressed , Ye will not see the wish to bless With universal happiness , Nor judge that mortals best fulfil A bountiful Creator's will , When , with a cheerful gratitude , They taste the pleasures He has strew'd , What can ...
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... sense , which imparted to it its chief interest and influence . " So entirely do I agree with the writer from whom the above extract is taken , that I have often rode . back after a morning concert , to my residence in the country ...
... sense , which imparted to it its chief interest and influence . " So entirely do I agree with the writer from whom the above extract is taken , that I have often rode . back after a morning concert , to my residence in the country ...
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... Sense that happens to differ from our own , supposing that we have any . If matter and mind , blending together in two incoherent substances , form the connecting link that separates physics from metaphysics , the real from the ima ...
... Sense that happens to differ from our own , supposing that we have any . If matter and mind , blending together in two incoherent substances , form the connecting link that separates physics from metaphysics , the real from the ima ...
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