The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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An adherence to nature , however , is by no means incompatible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by professional , or even mechanical aids .
An adherence to nature , however , is by no means incompatible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by professional , or even mechanical aids .
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I suppose , then , " observed the monarch , “ they mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " ADMIRATION – We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , —but we do not always love those whom we admire .
I suppose , then , " observed the monarch , “ they mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " ADMIRATION – We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , —but we do not always love those whom we admire .
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So carefully , however , are our constitutional instincts guarded against abuse , that the moral and physical vigour imparted to us by anger as a salutary means of defence , is immediately lessened , when by its intemperate and reckless ...
So carefully , however , are our constitutional instincts guarded against abuse , that the moral and physical vigour imparted to us by anger as a salutary means of defence , is immediately lessened , when by its intemperate and reckless ...
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Twelve means two , after reckoning or laying aside ten ; and our termination of ty , in the words twenty , thirty , & c . , comes from the Anglo - Saxon teg to draw ; so that twenty , or twainty , signifies two drawings , or that the ...
Twelve means two , after reckoning or laying aside ten ; and our termination of ty , in the words twenty , thirty , & c . , comes from the Anglo - Saxon teg to draw ; so that twenty , or twainty , signifies two drawings , or that the ...
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Some , indeed , are so consistent as to tell us , that the practice is mean , degrading , contemptible , un - English , at the very time that it is openly practised in the Committee business of the House of Commons , in the elections at ...
Some , indeed , are so consistent as to tell us , that the practice is mean , degrading , contemptible , un - English , at the very time that it is openly practised in the Committee business of the House of Commons , in the elections at ...
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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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