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 49
... observed that the shortness of life has afforded as many arguments to the voluptuary as to the moralist , and there ... observation of the French writer , Balzac : " Si ceux qui sont ennemis des divertissemens honnĂȘtes avoient la ...
... observed that the shortness of life has afforded as many arguments to the voluptuary as to the moralist , and there ... observation of the French writer , Balzac : " Si ceux qui sont ennemis des divertissemens honnĂȘtes avoient la ...
Page 65
... observe certain forms in- volving no self - denial , or to profess a belief , which may be simply an uninquiring assent , than to practise virtue , that the fanatics will always have numerous followers , who will hate the moralists even ...
... observe certain forms in- volving no self - denial , or to profess a belief , which may be simply an uninquiring assent , than to practise virtue , that the fanatics will always have numerous followers , who will hate the moralists even ...
Page 78
... observe how invariably , and how very impartially , each candidate , when describing the sort of representative whom the worthy and enlightened constituents ought to return , draws a portrait of himself , blazoning the little nothings ...
... observe how invariably , and how very impartially , each candidate , when describing the sort of representative whom the worthy and enlightened constituents ought to return , draws a portrait of himself , blazoning the little nothings ...
Page 111
... observation of which would at once banish flattery and defamation from the earth . Conversation stock being a joint and common property , every one should take a share in it ; and yet there may be societies in which silence will be our ...
... observation of which would at once banish flattery and defamation from the earth . Conversation stock being a joint and common property , every one should take a share in it ; and yet there may be societies in which silence will be our ...
Page 122
... observed . The injurious persons who maintain that the weight of our debt gives solidity to our political institutions , and that its increase only adds to our security , remind one of the sapient Justice , who , finding the ice begin ...
... observed . The injurious persons who maintain that the weight of our debt gives solidity to our political institutions , and that its increase only adds to our security , remind one of the sapient Justice , who , finding the ice begin ...
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