The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... word in the present work , my friend recoiled with an insurmount- able aversion , only consenting to be named President of the Tea Party , on condition that it should consist of both sexes , and be governed by the rules that he had ...
... word in the present work , my friend recoiled with an insurmount- able aversion , only consenting to be named President of the Tea Party , on condition that it should consist of both sexes , and be governed by the rules that he had ...
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... 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 friend ...
... 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 friend ...
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... become singu- lar . The verb " to love " is declined , not conjugated . Stan- dard words , to which the utmost importance was attached by VOL . I. 2 the wisdom of our ancestors , such , for instance THE TIN TRUMPET; ...
... become singu- lar . The verb " to love " is declined , not conjugated . Stan- dard words , to which the utmost importance was attached by VOL . I. 2 the wisdom of our ancestors , such , for instance THE TIN TRUMPET; ...
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... words , leaning towards republicanism , seems to be the form of government most appropriate for a civilized and enlightened nation in the nineteenth century . The greatest strength should be at the base , not at the top ; for it is as ...
... words , leaning towards republicanism , seems to be the form of government most appropriate for a civilized and enlightened nation in the nineteenth century . The greatest strength should be at the base , not at the top ; for it is as ...
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... word , and if it be the only one he has to expect , he draws upon it the more liberally . Another is worse than himself , or he fancies him to be so , and he forthwith imagines that he is a moral charac- ter , because he is not the ...
... word , and if it be the only one he has to expect , he draws upon it the more liberally . Another is worse than himself , or he fancies him to be so , and he forthwith imagines that he is a moral charac- ter , because he is not the ...
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