Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... manner , what has been done amiss - what character so unexceptionable as to be able to stand before him ? -Sterne . LIII . There is a time which precedes reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the ...
... manner , what has been done amiss - what character so unexceptionable as to be able to stand before him ? -Sterne . LIII . There is a time which precedes reason , when , like other animals , we live by instinct alone ; of which the ...
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... manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness ; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness . - Franklin LXXXIX . He that would please in company ...
... manners of different nations with impartiality , we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness ; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness . - Franklin LXXXIX . He that would please in company ...
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... manner dig- ging his own grave . — Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of ...
... manner dig- ging his own grave . — Connoisseur . CXXIX . Translation is a kind of drawing after the life ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of ...
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... manner of judging it , than by counting noses . By this rule , if they can poll an indif- ferent number out of a mob ; if they can produce a set of Lancashire noodles , remote provincial head - pieces , or visionary assemblies , to ...
... manner of judging it , than by counting noses . By this rule , if they can poll an indif- ferent number out of a mob ; if they can produce a set of Lancashire noodles , remote provincial head - pieces , or visionary assemblies , to ...
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... manner and of dress , is more engaging , than that glare of paint and airs and apparel , which may dazzle the eye , but reaches not the affections . - Hume . CLXXX . All courageous animals are carnivorous , and greater courage is to be ...
... manner and of dress , is more engaging , than that glare of paint and airs and apparel , which may dazzle the eye , but reaches not the affections . - Hume . CLXXX . All courageous animals are carnivorous , and greater courage is to be ...
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