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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... write on a slip of paper , for the information of the associates , the subjects upon which they were to converse at their next meeting . Not in any degree , however , could this friendly party be assimilated to a debating society ...
... write on a slip of paper , for the information of the associates , the subjects upon which they were to converse at their next meeting . Not in any degree , however , could this friendly party be assimilated to a debating society ...
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... 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 . " In elucidation of this latter word ...
... 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 . " In elucidation of this latter word ...
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... writer of those papers , as well as from all others who might 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 any ...
... writer of those papers , as well as from all others who might 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 any ...
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... 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 sermon had only one fault - that of being too short , -- he replied , that he should have made it ...
... 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 sermon had only one fault - that of being too short , -- he replied , that he should have made it ...
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... 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 , an experiment which few , we ...
... 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 , an experiment which few , we ...
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