The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... society , which met weekly at his lodgings , under the name of " The Tea Party , ” to parti- cipate in his favourite beverage , and to pass a few hours in rational conversation . From everything in the nature of a club , as the reader ...
... society , which met weekly at his lodgings , under the name of " The Tea Party , ” to parti- cipate in his favourite beverage , and to pass a few hours in rational conversation . From everything in the nature of a club , as the reader ...
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... society , and the restraints upon opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the assumed civilization ! Oh ...
... society , and the restraints upon opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the assumed civilization ! Oh ...
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... Society for the Suppression of Vice . If we did not know that the best things perverted become the worst , we might wonder that the Chris- tian religion should have ever generated a sect , whose doc- trines are professedly anti - moral ...
... Society for the Suppression of Vice . If we did not know that the best things perverted become the worst , we might wonder that the Chris- tian religion should have ever generated a sect , whose doc- trines are professedly anti - moral ...
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... society , bearing the fair impress of ladies and gentlemen . The former , if carefully weighed , will always be found light , or you may presently detect if you ring them , though this is a somewhat perilous experiment . Both may be ...
... society , bearing the fair impress of ladies and gentlemen . The former , if carefully weighed , will always be found light , or you may presently detect if you ring them , though this is a somewhat perilous experiment . Both may be ...
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... society , it would enable him to form a better notion of the pastime he is in the habit of pursuing . - N . B. To make some approximation towards strict retributive justice , he should gorge the bait , and his tormentor should have all ...
... society , it would enable him to form a better notion of the pastime he is in the habit of pursuing . - N . B. To make some approximation towards strict retributive justice , he should gorge the bait , and his tormentor should have all ...
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