The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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Upon one of these visits he established a little society , which met weekly at his lodgings , under the name of “ The Tea Party , ” to participate in his favourite beverage , and to pass a few hours in rational conversation .
Upon one of these visits he established a little society , which met weekly at his lodgings , under the name of “ The Tea Party , ” to participate in his favourite beverage , and to pass a few hours in rational conversation .
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Pass a law that shall legalize their offences , or let them be tried and acquitted , from some flaw in the indictment , and their minds will be wonderfully tranquillized . How much safer a guide and monitor would our conscience become ...
Pass a law that shall legalize their offences , or let them be tried and acquitted , from some flaw in the indictment , and their minds will be wonderfully tranquillized . How much safer a guide and monitor would our conscience become ...
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This remnant of a barbarous age must soon pass away , and if our flogging disciplinarians would pass away at the same time , we should all be gainers by their loss .
This remnant of a barbarous age must soon pass away , and if our flogging disciplinarians would pass away at the same time , we should all be gainers by their loss .
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One half of mankind pass their lives in thinking how they shall get a dinner , and the other in thinking what dinner they shall get ; and the first are much less injured by occasional ...
One half of mankind pass their lives in thinking how they shall get a dinner , and the other in thinking what dinner they shall get ; and the first are much less injured by occasional ...
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No man could pass through a truth - telling church - yard , without feeling the full value of character . What can more impressively stamp the evanescency of man and all his works , than an epitaph on a whole nation , which shall afford ...
No man could pass through a truth - telling church - yard , without feeling the full value of character . What can more impressively stamp the evanescency of man and all his works , than an epitaph on a whole nation , which shall afford ...
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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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