The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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... give it encouragement , but I am confident , that in this land of primogeniture and en- tailed estates , there is not an heir in the three kingdoms who would not exert himself to insure its success . 66 ABSCESS - a morbid tumour ...
... give it encouragement , but I am confident , that in this land of primogeniture and en- tailed estates , there is not an heir in the three kingdoms who would not exert himself to insure its success . 66 ABSCESS - a morbid tumour ...
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... give up abuses , will inevitably be called upon to surrender uses . Will they take a hint , and make a compromise in time , or like the borough - mongers , dig a pit for themselves to fall into ? For their own sakes I hope they will ...
... give up abuses , will inevitably be called upon to surrender uses . Will they take a hint , and make a compromise in time , or like the borough - mongers , dig a pit for themselves to fall into ? For their own sakes I hope they will ...
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... gives us , in the assurance of lasting joys , an abundant recom- pence for the loss of transient ones . " Whom the ... give him when we shared it with the world , he will never reject the broken one , which we offer him in our hour of ...
... gives us , in the assurance of lasting joys , an abundant recom- pence for the loss of transient ones . " Whom the ... give him when we shared it with the world , he will never reject the broken one , which we offer him in our hour of ...
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... give his body to earth , whence it rose , And his spirit to Jove , who bestowed it . " AGE - old - an infirmity which nobody knows . Nothing can exceed our early impatience to escape from youth to manhood , and appear older than we are ...
... give his body to earth , whence it rose , And his spirit to Jove , who bestowed it . " AGE - old - an infirmity which nobody knows . Nothing can exceed our early impatience to escape from youth to manhood , and appear older than we are ...
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... gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to make himself ten years younger than he really was , drily observed ...
... gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to make himself ten years younger than he really was , drily observed ...
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