Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... falls into , the rabble of mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone ; and death ...
... falls into , the rabble of mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at , with any mixture of wit , is ridiculous in itself . - Addison . XXV . While we are reasoning concerning life , life is gone ; and death ...
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... fall beside it , and ten thousand on its right hand ; they fall , so rent and torn in this tender part of them , so unmercifully butchered , as sometimes never to recover either the wounds , or the anguish of heart which they bave ...
... fall beside it , and ten thousand on its right hand ; they fall , so rent and torn in this tender part of them , so unmercifully butchered , as sometimes never to recover either the wounds , or the anguish of heart which they bave ...
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... falls in the river , A moment white - then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race , That flit ere you can point their ... fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . 4. Hill . CXIL Reason is a very light rider , and easily 24 ...
... falls in the river , A moment white - then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race , That flit ere you can point their ... fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . 4. Hill . CXIL Reason is a very light rider , and easily 24 ...
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... fall to the paring , out of love they have to the apple . - Selden . CXLIX . The first three men in the world , were a gardener , a ploughman , and a grazier ; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer , I desire he ...
... fall to the paring , out of love they have to the apple . - Selden . CXLIX . The first three men in the world , were a gardener , a ploughman , and a grazier ; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer , I desire he ...
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... fall innoxious at his feet . - Seneca . CCLXXXVII . Sin is never at a stay ; if we do not retreat from it , we shall advance in it ; and the further on we go , the more we have to come back . - Barrou CCLXXXVIII . Men should press ...
... fall innoxious at his feet . - Seneca . CCLXXXVII . Sin is never at a stay ; if we do not retreat from it , we shall advance in it ; and the further on we go , the more we have to come back . - Barrou CCLXXXVIII . Men should press ...
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