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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Page 61
... mean to rise . The waxen wings of Icarus , which , instead of making him master of the air , plunged him into the water , were a practical Bathos . So was the miserable imitation of the Thunderer by Salmoneus , which , instead of giving ...
... mean to rise . The waxen wings of Icarus , which , instead of making him master of the air , plunged him into the water , were a practical Bathos . So was the miserable imitation of the Thunderer by Salmoneus , which , instead of giving ...
Page 62
... mean . " The beauty of a nose , " says Adam Smith , following out the same idea in his Theory of Moral Sentiments , is the form at which Nature seems to have aimed in all noses , which she seldom hits exactly , but to which all her ...
... mean . " The beauty of a nose , " says Adam Smith , following out the same idea in his Theory of Moral Sentiments , is the form at which Nature seems to have aimed in all noses , which she seldom hits exactly , but to which all her ...
Page 63
... means to apprise us that the article is his own Bruin ! " BELIEF . - An involuntary operation of the mind , which we can no more control , however earnestly we may wish or pray for it , than we can add a cubit to our stature by desiring ...
... means to apprise us that the article is his own Bruin ! " BELIEF . - An involuntary operation of the mind , which we can no more control , however earnestly we may wish or pray for it , than we can add a cubit to our stature by desiring ...
Page 64
... means in his power of being informed . If a proposition is evident , we cannot avoid believing it , and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident , we can- not help rejecting it , or doubting of it ; and ...
... means in his power of being informed . If a proposition is evident , we cannot avoid believing it , and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident , we can- not help rejecting it , or doubting of it ; and ...
Page 67
... means to comply with that ceremony , he made answer in the English tongue - NE SE BY GOD — i . e . — Not so by God . Upon which the king and his courtiers deriding him , and corruptly repeating his answer , called him bigot , which was ...
... means to comply with that ceremony , he made answer in the English tongue - NE SE BY GOD — i . e . — Not so by God . Upon which the king and his courtiers deriding him , and corruptly repeating his answer , called him bigot , which was ...
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