The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... compared to heart - felt , practical , vital Christianity ; yet a more devout man I never knew . His religion was a senti- ment in which his whole heart was steeped , and which exhibited itself in an ever - present sense of profound ...
... compared to heart - felt , practical , vital Christianity ; yet a more devout man I never knew . His religion was a senti- ment in which his whole heart was steeped , and which exhibited itself in an ever - present sense of profound ...
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... compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to ...
... compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to ...
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... compared to the Nile , which has many mouths , and no discoverable head . Nobles sometimes illustrate that name about as much as an Italian Cicerone recalls the idea of Cicero . It is a double shame to a man to have derived distinction ...
... compared to the Nile , which has many mouths , and no discoverable head . Nobles sometimes illustrate that name about as much as an Italian Cicerone recalls the idea of Cicero . It is a double shame to a man to have derived distinction ...
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... comparing them with their predecessors . If architects at- tempt anything original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and desired to stick to the five orders . This is the sixth order of the public . If artists follow the bent of ...
... comparing them with their predecessors . If architects at- tempt anything original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and desired to stick to the five orders . This is the sixth order of the public . If artists follow the bent of ...
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... compared to industrious bees , not because they are armed with a sting , but because they gather honey from every flower , only that their hive may be plun- dered when their toil is completed . By the iniquitous law of copyright , an ...
... compared to industrious bees , not because they are armed with a sting , but because they gather honey from every flower , only that their hive may be plun- dered when their toil is completed . By the iniquitous law of copyright , an ...
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