The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... in any degree , however , could this friendly party be assimilated to a debating society , though its founder was anxious to avoid the common trivialities of chitchat , by devoting an hour and a half of their meeting to 4 INTRODUCTION .
... in any degree , however , could this friendly party be assimilated to a debating society , though its founder was anxious to avoid the common trivialities of chitchat , by devoting an hour and a half of their meeting to 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... common - place book , such brief heads , or extracts , or allusions as might bear upon the subject next to be considered ; for it will readily be conjectured that he himself was the principal speaker . Loving truth better even than my ...
... common - place book , such brief heads , or extracts , or allusions as might bear upon the subject next to be considered ; for it will readily be conjectured that he himself was the principal speaker . Loving truth better even than my ...
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... common - place book , and were generally assigned to their author , under his initials of T. H. Many of these caudal vertebræ , or tale - joints , as he himself banteringly termed them , I have ventured to expunge , as they would have ...
... common - place book , and were generally assigned to their author , under his initials of T. H. Many of these caudal vertebræ , or tale - joints , as he himself banteringly termed them , I have ventured to expunge , as they would have ...
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... common observers . " What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing ? " her Majesty demanded of a choleric courtier , to whom she had not realised her pro- mise of promotion . " He thinks , madam , 34 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... common observers . " What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing ? " her Majesty demanded of a choleric courtier , to whom she had not realised her pro- mise of promotion . " He thinks , madam , 34 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
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... common enemy without ! Mark the opinion upon this subject entertained by a distin- guished prelate . " I reduced the study of divinity , " says Bi- shop Watson , " into as narrow a compass as possible , for I de- termined to study ...
... common enemy without ! Mark the opinion upon this subject entertained by a distin- guished prelate . " I reduced the study of divinity , " says Bi- shop Watson , " into as narrow a compass as possible , for I de- termined to study ...
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