The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... fortune , ( which , since his retirement from productive practice , was restricted to rather less than five hundred a - year , ) with a zeal , perseverance , and success , utterly unparalleled , as I verily believe , except in the ...
... fortune , ( which , since his retirement from productive practice , was restricted to rather less than five hundred a - year , ) with a zeal , perseverance , and success , utterly unparalleled , as I verily believe , except in the ...
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... fortune has found himself , and been ruined into salvation ; for though God de- - mands the whole heart , which we could not give him when we shared it with the world , he will never reject the broken one , which we offer him in our ...
... fortune has found himself , and been ruined into salvation ; for though God de- - mands the whole heart , which we could not give him when we shared it with the world , he will never reject the broken one , which we offer him in our ...
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... fortune the best security for her final smiles . A nobleman who painted remarkably well for an ama- teur , showing one of his pictures to Poussin , the latter exclaim- ed- " Your lordship only requires a little poverty to make you a ...
... fortune the best security for her final smiles . A nobleman who painted remarkably well for an ama- teur , showing one of his pictures to Poussin , the latter exclaim- ed- " Your lordship only requires a little poverty to make you a ...
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... fortune , if mea- sured by the criterion of enjoyment , are rather apparent than real ; for it is difficult to be rich without care , and easy to be happy without wealth . CASTLE . - In England every man's cottage is held to be his ...
... fortune , if mea- sured by the criterion of enjoyment , are rather apparent than real ; for it is difficult to be rich without care , and easy to be happy without wealth . CASTLE . - In England every man's cottage is held to be his ...
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... , at the same time holding up a nutmeg grater . CHANGE - The only thing that is constant ; mutability being an immutable law of the universe . 1 " Men change with fortune , manners change with 84 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... , at the same time holding up a nutmeg grater . CHANGE - The only thing that is constant ; mutability being an immutable law of the universe . 1 " Men change with fortune , manners change with 84 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
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