The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... be paid for . The great injury sustained by persons writing on the margin , and otherwise damaging the most expensive works , compels the Proprietor strictly to enforce this rule . THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR , HEADS AND TALES .
... be paid for . The great injury sustained by persons writing on the margin , and otherwise damaging the most expensive works , compels the Proprietor strictly to enforce this rule . THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR , HEADS AND TALES .
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... writing on the literature of the Trouveres , says , " The Provençal was called the Langue d'Oc , and the Wallon the Langue d'Oil , or d'Oui , from the affirma- tive word of each language , as the Italian was then called the Langue de Si ...
... writing on the literature of the Trouveres , says , " The Provençal was called the Langue d'Oc , and the Wallon the Langue d'Oil , or d'Oui , from the affirma- tive word of each language , as the Italian was then called the Langue de Si ...
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... writing than is permitted by the laws of modern England . Adverting to the reigns of Trajan and Aurelius , Tacitus says- " Rara temporum felicitate , ubi sentire quæ velis , et quæ sentias dicere licet . " - " By the rare happiness of ...
... writing than is permitted by the laws of modern England . Adverting to the reigns of Trajan and Aurelius , Tacitus says- " Rara temporum felicitate , ubi sentire quæ velis , et quæ sentias dicere licet . " - " By the rare happiness of ...
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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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... writers of the same class , cannot succeed in giving any man , of a generous and clear intellect , an unfavourable opinion of human nature . Like the workers of tapestry , who always behold the wrong side , they themselves may see ...
... writers of the same class , cannot succeed in giving any man , of a generous and clear intellect , an unfavourable opinion of human nature . Like the workers of tapestry , who always behold the wrong side , they themselves may see ...
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