The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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The same Tin Trumpet , with a transferable steel - pen affixed to its narrow end , served to register the proceedings of the society in a book kept for that purpose ; as well as to write on a slip of paper , for the information of the ...
The same Tin Trumpet , with a transferable steel - pen affixed to its narrow end , served to register the proceedings of the society in a book kept for that purpose ; as well as to write on a slip of paper , for the information of the ...
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... which he invariably employed the writing instrument to which we have already alluded . This will explain the title of “ The Tin Trumpet ” -given to his book , as well as the first part of its second appellation— " Heads and TALES .
... which he invariably employed the writing instrument to which we have already alluded . This will explain the title of “ The Tin Trumpet ” -given to his book , as well as the first part of its second appellation— " Heads and TALES .
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From the writer of those papers , as well as from all others who night serve his purpose , not excepting the Edinburgh Review , of which he was a constant reader , he borrowed without compunction . Wherever he made verbal quotations of ...
From the writer of those papers , as well as from all others who night serve his purpose , not excepting the Edinburgh Review , of which he was a constant reader , he borrowed without compunction . Wherever he made verbal quotations of ...
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To make a good abridgment , requires as much time and talent as to write an original work ; a fact of which the reader will find abundant proof as he proceeds ! When Queen Anne told Dr. South that his ...
To make a good abridgment , requires as much time and talent as to write an original work ; a fact of which the reader will find abundant proof as he proceeds ! When Queen Anne told Dr. South that his ...
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AFFLICTION - A French writer , arguing , perhaps , from the analogy of the English language , wherein two negatives constitute an affirmative , observes that deux afflictions mises ensemble peuvent devenir une consolation ...
AFFLICTION - A French writer , arguing , perhaps , from the analogy of the English language , wherein two negatives constitute an affirmative , observes that deux afflictions mises ensemble peuvent devenir une consolation ...
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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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