The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... latter word we must state that the most important personage of the party , after its president , was one Timothy Harrison , an independent Yorkshire yeoman , and not a less singular character , though in a different way than his bosom ...
... latter word we must state that the most important personage of the party , after its president , was one Timothy Harrison , an independent Yorkshire yeoman , and not a less singular character , though in a different way than his bosom ...
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... latter is an excusable ambition , even in our noblemen , for it shows that they know themselves , and have found a properer place , and more congenial elevation than the peerage . Some there are , who , deeming dissolute manners an ...
... latter is an excusable ambition , even in our noblemen , for it shows that they know themselves , and have found a properer place , and more congenial elevation than the peerage . Some there are , who , deeming dissolute manners an ...
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... latter case , they would perhaps attempt to dignify his person , and his office by some courteous periphrase , or concealing both beneath the appro- priate veil of a dead language , would speak of him as — ` -Vir excellentissimus ...
... latter case , they would perhaps attempt to dignify his person , and his office by some courteous periphrase , or concealing both beneath the appro- priate veil of a dead language , would speak of him as — ` -Vir excellentissimus ...
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... latter clause an exception might have been made in favour of self , for self - love is the source of self- admiration ; and this is the safest of all loves , for most people may indulge it without the fear of a rival . ADVERSITY — is ...
... latter clause an exception might have been made in favour of self , for self - love is the source of self- admiration ; and this is the safest of all loves , for most people may indulge it without the fear of a rival . ADVERSITY — is ...
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... latter , when his boy threatened to enlist in the army- “ would you be laving your poor ould father that dotes upon ye ? You , the best and the most dutiful of all my children , and the only one that never struck me when I was down ...
... latter , when his boy threatened to enlist in the army- “ would you be laving your poor ould father that dotes upon ye ? You , the best and the most dutiful of all my children , and the only one that never struck me when I was down ...
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