The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... rendered their selection and arrangement a matter of no small difficulty and of some unexpected delay ; but I have executed my task to the best of my ability and judgment , and I now commit the work to the indulgence of the reader ...
... rendered their selection and arrangement a matter of no small difficulty and of some unexpected delay ; but I have executed my task to the best of my ability and judgment , and I now commit the work to the indulgence of the reader ...
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... render our bounties available , they must be in the plural number . It is always wise to be charitable , but it is almost peculiar to my friend L that he is often witty in his bounties . He was about to assist with a sum of money a ...
... render our bounties available , they must be in the plural number . It is always wise to be charitable , but it is almost peculiar to my friend L that he is often witty in his bounties . He was about to assist with a sum of money a ...
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... rendering the whole structure slightly pyramidical , and thus preserving the consis- tency of its lines . 66 Observing some singular pilasters at Harrowgate , sur- mounted with the Cornua Ammonis , I ventured to ask the builder to what ...
... rendering the whole structure slightly pyramidical , and thus preserving the consis- tency of its lines . 66 Observing some singular pilasters at Harrowgate , sur- mounted with the Cornua Ammonis , I ventured to ask the builder to what ...
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... renders the folly and inconsistency of such conduct more glaring , is the fact that some of the most distinguished prelates of the Church have been the most strenuous advocates of Reform . " A Re- former , " says Bishop Watson , " of ...
... renders the folly and inconsistency of such conduct more glaring , is the fact that some of the most distinguished prelates of the Church have been the most strenuous advocates of Reform . " A Re- former , " says Bishop Watson , " of ...
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... rendered every day more difficult ; he begins to hate his home ; and his occasional absence is soon made habitual . Meanwhile , the children lose the benefit of the father's pre- sence and example ; the father , whose loss is of still ...
... rendered every day more difficult ; he begins to hate his home ; and his occasional absence is soon made habitual . Meanwhile , the children lose the benefit of the father's pre- sence and example ; the father , whose loss is of still ...
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Page 48 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 170 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 158 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Page 50 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Page 148 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Page 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Page 135 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 107 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Page 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.