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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... ourselves to the five To the art of the sta- that of the architect Why we should continue to enslave orders of Vitruvius , I cannot well see . tuary there is a conceivable limit , but seems to admit a much wider range , and greater ...
... ourselves to the five To the art of the sta- that of the architect Why we should continue to enslave orders of Vitruvius , I cannot well see . tuary there is a conceivable limit , but seems to admit a much wider range , and greater ...
Page 52
... which the secret sense in ourselves , and the open homage it draws from others , are doubly sweet , when we feel that all our other powers , and the estimation they procured us , are gradually failing . Nor is it 52 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... which the secret sense in ourselves , and the open homage it draws from others , are doubly sweet , when we feel that all our other powers , and the estimation they procured us , are gradually failing . Nor is it 52 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
Page 53
... ourselves an ob- ject , of which every passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to make the last plum than the first ...
... ourselves an ob- ject , of which every passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to make the last plum than the first ...
Page 54
... ourselves by our best production , and others by their worst . Writers are too often treated by the public as crimps serve recruits , —made drunk first , only that they may be safely rattaned all the rest of their lives . An author is ...
... ourselves by our best production , and others by their worst . Writers are too often treated by the public as crimps serve recruits , —made drunk first , only that they may be safely rattaned all the rest of their lives . An author is ...
Page 55
... ourselves . Bet- ter to be a slave with an unfettered mind , than a pseudo free- man whose opinions , his most precious birthright , are bond- slaves to a name . Had authority always been our guide , we should still have been savages ...
... ourselves . Bet- ter to be a slave with an unfettered mind , than a pseudo free- man whose opinions , his most precious birthright , are bond- slaves to a name . Had authority always been our guide , we should still have been savages ...
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