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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... original ; and he often regretted that the omission of noting down his authorities , prevented him from acknow- ledging them upon other and all occasions . With the mate- rials thus accumulated , he interspersed , as he proceeded , his ...
... original ; and he often regretted that the omission of noting down his authorities , prevented him from acknow- ledging them upon other and all occasions . With the mate- rials thus accumulated , he interspersed , as he proceeded , his ...
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... original work ; a fact of which the reader will find abundant proof as he proceeds ! When Queen Anne told Dr. South that his sermon had only one fault - that of being too short , -- he replied , that he should have made it shorter if he ...
... original work ; a fact of which the reader will find abundant proof as he proceeds ! When Queen Anne told Dr. South that his sermon had only one fault - that of being too short , -- he replied , that he should have made it shorter if he ...
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... original - the Phenician or Syriac . " Phenicia and Palestine , " says Gibbon , " will for ever live in the memory of mankind ; since America , as well as Eu- rope , has received letters from the one and religion from the other . " One ...
... original - the Phenician or Syriac . " Phenicia and Palestine , " says Gibbon , " will for ever live in the memory of mankind ; since America , as well as Eu- rope , has received letters from the one and religion from the other . " One ...
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... original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and desired to stick to the five orders . This is the sixth order of the public . If artists follow the bent of their own genius , they are tauntingly referred by their new masters to the ...
... original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and desired to stick to the five orders . This is the sixth order of the public . If artists follow the bent of their own genius , they are tauntingly referred by their new masters to the ...
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... original import ; even as beldam ( or belle dame , ) formerly expressive of female beauty , is now defined by Dr. Johnson as , a term of con- tempt , marking the last degree of old age with all its faults and miseries . " 66 If we have ...
... original import ; even as beldam ( or belle dame , ) formerly expressive of female beauty , is now defined by Dr. Johnson as , a term of con- tempt , marking the last degree of old age with all its faults and miseries . " 66 If we have ...
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