The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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The only sure way , then , ” add they , “ to come to the certain knowledge of the truth , is to consult God himself , wait His inspirations , live just and honest lives , be kind and beneficent to all our fellow - creatures , and pity ...
The only sure way , then , ” add they , “ to come to the certain knowledge of the truth , is to consult God himself , wait His inspirations , live just and honest lives , be kind and beneficent to all our fellow - creatures , and pity ...
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Phenicia and Palestine , ” says Gibbon , “ will for ever live in the memory of mankind ; since America , as well as Europe , received letters from the one and religion from the other . " % 23 One of the earlier French princes being too ...
Phenicia and Palestine , ” says Gibbon , “ will for ever live in the memory of mankind ; since America , as well as Europe , received letters from the one and religion from the other . " % 23 One of the earlier French princes being too ...
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ANCIENTS_Dead bones used for the purpose of knocking down live flesh . Every puny Sampson thinks he may wield his ass's jaw - bone in assaulting his contemporaries , by comparing them with their predecessors .
ANCIENTS_Dead bones used for the purpose of knocking down live flesh . Every puny Sampson thinks he may wield his ass's jaw - bone in assaulting his contemporaries , by comparing them with their predecessors .
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а ANGLER -- A fish - butcher - a piscatory assassin - a Jack Ketch - catcher of jack , an impaler of live worms , frogs , and flies , a torturer of trout , a killer of carp , and a great gudgeon who sacrifices the best part of his life ...
а ANGLER -- A fish - butcher - a piscatory assassin - a Jack Ketch - catcher of jack , an impaler of live worms , frogs , and flies , a torturer of trout , a killer of carp , and a great gudgeon who sacrifices the best part of his life ...
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In his selfish anxiety to live unencumbered , he has only subjected himself to a heavier burthen ; for the passions , who apportion to every individual the load that he > is to bear through life , generally say to HEADS AND TALES , 57.
In his selfish anxiety to live unencumbered , he has only subjected himself to a heavier burthen ; for the passions , who apportion to every individual the load that he > is to bear through life , generally say to HEADS AND TALES , 57.
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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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