The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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Wood , in his Athene Oxoniensis , speaking of Thomas Farnabie , says— “ When he landed in Cornwall , his distresses made him stoop so low , as to be an A.b.c.darian , and several were taught their horn books by him .
Wood , in his Athene Oxoniensis , speaking of Thomas Farnabie , says— “ When he landed in Cornwall , his distresses made him stoop so low , as to be an A.b.c.darian , and several were taught their horn books by him .
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ADMIRATION – We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , —but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception might have been made in favour of self , for self - love is the source of ...
ADMIRATION – We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , —but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception might have been made in favour of self , for self - love is the source of ...
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mentary in everything , the French say of a woman thus circumstanced , that she is femme d'un age raisonnable , as if she had gained , in her reasoning faculties , what she had lost in personal charms ; and this , doubtless , ought to ...
mentary in everything , the French say of a woman thus circumstanced , that she is femme d'un age raisonnable , as if she had gained , in her reasoning faculties , what she had lost in personal charms ; and this , doubtless , ought to ...
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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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“ I wish , says Seneca , “ that anger could always be exhausted , when its first weapon was broken , and that like the bees , who leave their stings in the wound they make , we could only a inflict a single injury .
“ I wish , says Seneca , “ that anger could always be exhausted , when its first weapon was broken , and that like the bees , who leave their stings in the wound they make , we could only a inflict a single injury .
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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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