The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... the very medium of communion between men , is at the same time by the great variety of tongues , the means of severing and estranging nations more than any thing MMA OL CYTILOKMM else . In this respect it may be compared to 2 ...
... the very medium of communion between men , is at the same time by the great variety of tongues , the means of severing and estranging nations more than any thing MMA OL CYTILOKMM else . In this respect it may be compared to 2 ...
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... things ; a common act of me- mory , which be exercised without common may 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 ...
... things ; a common act of me- mory , which be exercised without common may 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 ...
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... things are so utterly different from each other . The ancient Egyptians considered every part of the universe to be endowed with an inherent life , energy and intelligence ; worshipping the active phenomena of nature , without ...
... things are so utterly different from each other . The ancient Egyptians considered every part of the universe to be endowed with an inherent life , energy and intelligence ; worshipping the active phenomena of nature , without ...
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... writer , " that we can always remember the smallest thing that has happened to ourselves , and yet not recollect how often we have repeated it to the same person . " It is a benevolent provision of nature , that in 24 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
... writer , " that we can always remember the smallest thing that has happened to ourselves , and yet not recollect how often we have repeated it to the same person . " It is a benevolent provision of nature , that in 24 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR ,
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... things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ! " Law's observation , " that every man knows some- thing worse of himself than he is sure of in others , ” savours not of misanthropy , but of that doubly - benefi- cial feeling which ...
... things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ! " Law's observation , " that every man knows some- thing worse of himself than he is sure of in others , ” savours not of misanthropy , but of that doubly - benefi- cial feeling which ...
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