The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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ABLUTION - a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxły observed in Christian practice . As a man may have a dirty body , and an undefiled mind , so may he have clean hands in a literal ...
ABLUTION - a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxły observed in Christian practice . As a man may have a dirty body , and an undefiled mind , so may he have clean hands in a literal ...
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“ You are the last person , ” observed the magistrate , “ who should have used this opprobrious word , for , if I have been rightly informed , you yourself had 2 * HEADS AND TALES . 17.
“ You are the last person , ” observed the magistrate , “ who should have used this opprobrious word , for , if I have been rightly informed , you yourself had 2 * HEADS AND TALES . 17.
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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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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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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— “ Then at the time you and I were at school ...
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— “ Then at the time you and I were at school ...
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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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