The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 295 pages |
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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 . 66 ...
... 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 . 66 ...
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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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abuse asked atheism attri authority beauty better biped Bishop Burnet bless cholera Christians Church clergy creature cried dear death Deity delight divine earth England equally evanescent evil exclaimed eyes fate fear feel give glories happiness hate head HEADS AND TALES heart heaven Herbert honour human Jack-o'-lantern Jean Paul Richter labours lative less light live look Lord Lord G marriage merit mind misanthropical Momus moral mother nature Nebuchadnezzar the Great!-Huzza neighbours never o'er object once opinion ourselves Pat Sullivan perpetual pious pleasure poor pride Primogeniture rare reason reform religion replied rich Robert Boyle says seldom sense silence soul spirit Susan Tacitus talents Talleyrand Tantara-ra Tertullian thee thing thou thought tion tithes truth virtues Voltaire whole words writing wrong
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Page 162 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 193 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 33 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts...
Page 78 - Who has not a thousand times seen snow fall on water? Who has not watched it with a new feeling from the time that he has read Burns...
Page 159 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion 'were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 33 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 62 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand different things : the...
Page 49 - ... nam neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis haberi queunt.
Page 20 - Then, Sir, you are not of opinion with some who imagine that certain men and certain women are made for each other; and that they cannot be happy if they miss their counterparts.
Page 1 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry'Hold, hold!