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 33
... single grain of originality . Whether , therefore , they allow the ancients to be imitable or inimitable it is manifest that they only exalt them in order to lower their contemporaries , and that their suffrages would be reversed , if ...
... single grain of originality . Whether , therefore , they allow the ancients to be imitable or inimitable it is manifest that they only exalt them in order to lower their contemporaries , and that their suffrages would be reversed , if ...
Page 34
... single injury . " To a certain extent this wish is often fulfilled , for the same writer observes , that anger is like a ruin , which , in falling upon its victim , breaks itself to pieces . Without any other armour than an offended ...
... single injury . " To a certain extent this wish is often fulfilled , for the same writer observes , that anger is like a ruin , which , in falling upon its victim , breaks itself to pieces . Without any other armour than an offended ...
Page 44
... single number , sufficiently indicates the primitive mode of counting . The Roman V is a rude outline of the five fingers , or of the out- spread hand , narrowing to the wrist ; while the X is a symbol of the two fives or two hands ...
... single number , sufficiently indicates the primitive mode of counting . The Roman V is a rude outline of the five fingers , or of the out- spread hand , narrowing to the wrist ; while the X is a symbol of the two fives or two hands ...
Page 51
... single stone , however cankered or superfluous , is to endanger the whole edifice of the church . Strange ! that we may suppress truth and yet not expunge a forgery . Strange ! that we may adapt the liturgy and formularies of religion ...
... single stone , however cankered or superfluous , is to endanger the whole edifice of the church . Strange ! that we may suppress truth and yet not expunge a forgery . Strange ! that we may adapt the liturgy and formularies of religion ...
Page 58
... single man , you shall carry double . " We may admire the wit , without acknowledging the truth of the repartee uttered by a bachelor , who , when his friend reproached him for his celibacy , adding that bachelor- ship ought to be taxed ...
... single man , you shall carry double . " We may admire the wit , without acknowledging the truth of the repartee uttered by a bachelor , who , when his friend reproached him for his celibacy , adding that bachelor- ship ought to be taxed ...
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