The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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years , his eminent professional skill , his time , his cheerful powers of consolation , and no small portion of his fortune , ( which , since his retirement from productive practice , was restricted to rather less than five hundred a ...
years , his eminent professional skill , his time , his cheerful powers of consolation , and no small portion of his fortune , ( which , since his retirement from productive practice , was restricted to rather less than five hundred a ...
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In elucidation of this 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 ...
In elucidation of this 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 ...
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There is a Providence ever watching over the destinies of mankind , but we should not the less on that account observe tbe maxim of Horace - Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus . The uncharitable forgetfulness of this rule was ...
There is a Providence ever watching over the destinies of mankind , but we should not the less on that account observe tbe maxim of Horace - Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus . The uncharitable forgetfulness of this rule was ...
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... and it seems possible to anticipate that which we must soon reach ; but the second is a weakness , not less strange than general , for we cannot expect to recover that from which we are perpetually flying , or avoid that to which we ...
... and it seems possible to anticipate that which we must soon reach ; but the second is a weakness , not less strange than general , for we cannot expect to recover that from which we are perpetually flying , or avoid that to which we ...
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Every rnan's ancestors double at each remove in geometrical proportion , so that after only twenty generations , he has above a million of progenitors . A duke has no more ; a dustman has no less . A river generally becomes narrower and ...
Every rnan's ancestors double at each remove in geometrical proportion , so that after only twenty generations , he has above a million of progenitors . A duke has no more ; a dustman has no less . A river generally becomes narrower and ...
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| Title | The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
| Author | Horace Smith |
| Publisher | E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 May 2007 |
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