The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... virtues on good terms . One of Sheridan's creditors , after having long and vainly dunned him , at length suggested , that if he could not discharge the principal of the debt , he might , at least , pay the interest . " No , " said the ...
... virtues on good terms . One of Sheridan's creditors , after having long and vainly dunned him , at length suggested , that if he could not discharge the principal of the debt , he might , at least , pay the interest . " No , " said the ...
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... virtue , the only way to discover their real character , is to read them backwards , like a Hebrew book . Many masqueraders on the stage of real life , betray themselves by overacting their part . With religious pretenders HEADS AND ...
... virtue , the only way to discover their real character , is to read them backwards , like a Hebrew book . Many masqueraders on the stage of real life , betray themselves by overacting their part . With religious pretenders HEADS AND ...
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... virtues . Lundy Foot , the cele- brated snuff manufacturer , originally kept a small tobacconist's shop at Limerick . One night , his house , which was uninsured , was burnt to the ground . As he contemplated the smoking ruins on the ...
... virtues . Lundy Foot , the cele- brated snuff manufacturer , originally kept a small tobacconist's shop at Limerick . One night , his house , which was uninsured , was burnt to the ground . As he contemplated the smoking ruins on the ...
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... virtuous ; the failure of the guilty , is the success of the innocent : to pity , there- fore , the former , is , in some sort , to injure the latter , and to destroy the effect of the great moral lesson afforded by both . Let us keep ...
... virtuous ; the failure of the guilty , is the success of the innocent : to pity , there- fore , the former , is , in some sort , to injure the latter , and to destroy the effect of the great moral lesson afforded by both . Let us keep ...
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... virtue ; just as it is easier to catch their diseases than to communicate to them our own good health1 . " Our anxiety to avoid bodily infection can only be exceeded by our total indifference to that which is mental There is a moral ...
... virtue ; just as it is easier to catch their diseases than to communicate to them our own good health1 . " Our anxiety to avoid bodily infection can only be exceeded by our total indifference to that which is mental There is a moral ...
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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 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 120 - His doctrine is the best limited, the best expressed : there is the most warmth without fanaticism, the most rational transport. There is one part of it which I disapprove, and I'd have him correct it ; which is, that ' he who does not feel joy in religion. is far from the kingdom of Heaven ! ' there are many good men whose fear of GOD predominates over their love.
Page 1 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 171 - When years, perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement ; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill and industry ; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes are a tax not only upon industry, but upon that industry which feeds mankind ; upon that species of exertion which it is the aim of all wise laws to cherish and promote...
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 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 135 - He was always cheerful, and desirous of promoting mirth by a facetious and humorous conversation; he was never soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; "for they are sparks," said he, " which if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.