The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... the idea of Cicero . It is a double shame to a man to have derived distinction from his predecessors , if he bequeath disgrace to his posterity . " Heraldic honours on the base , Do but degrade 32 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... the idea of Cicero . It is a double shame to a man to have derived distinction from his predecessors , if he bequeath disgrace to his posterity . " Heraldic honours on the base , Do but degrade 32 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
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To which are Added, Poetical Selections Horace Smith. " Heraldic honours on the base , Do but degrade their wearers more , As sweeps , whom May - day trappings grace . Show ten times blacker than before . " ANCIENTS - Dead bones used for ...
To which are Added, Poetical Selections Horace Smith. " Heraldic honours on the base , Do but degrade their wearers more , As sweeps , whom May - day trappings grace . Show ten times blacker than before . " ANCIENTS - Dead bones used for ...
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... honour , we have others who are an honour to their titles . Happy he , who deriving his patent from nature , as well as from his sovereign , may be dubbed , " inter doctos nobilissimus , —inter nobiles doctissimus , —inter utrosque ...
... honour , we have others who are an honour to their titles . Happy he , who deriving his patent from nature , as well as from his sovereign , may be dubbed , " inter doctos nobilissimus , —inter nobiles doctissimus , —inter utrosque ...
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... honour of agreeing with Vespasian , that— " Auri bonus est odor ex re qualibet , " and with Dr. Johnson , who maintained , that a man is seldom more beneficially employed , either for himself or others , than when he is making money ...
... honour of agreeing with Vespasian , that— " Auri bonus est odor ex re qualibet , " and with Dr. Johnson , who maintained , that a man is seldom more beneficially employed , either for himself or others , than when he is making money ...
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... honour he had received , made some good humoured allusions to blotters of foolscap , whose works were appropriately bound in calf ; and concluded by proposing in return , the health of Mr. Campbell , and the worshipful company of Paper ...
... honour he had received , made some good humoured allusions to blotters of foolscap , whose works were appropriately bound in calf ; and concluded by proposing in return , the health of Mr. Campbell , and the worshipful company of Paper ...
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