Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Volume 21829 |
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... hear than believe her relations . - Fuller . CXI . It was perhaps ordained by Providence , to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retire- ment or death any ...
... hear than believe her relations . - Fuller . CXI . It was perhaps ordained by Providence , to hinder us from tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retire- ment or death any ...
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... a secret known but to few , yet of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you fall into a man's conversation , the first thing you should consider is , whe- VOL . II . D ther he has a greater inclination to hear you , LACONICS .
... a secret known but to few , yet of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you fall into a man's conversation , the first thing you should consider is , whe- VOL . II . D ther he has a greater inclination to hear you , LACONICS .
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Laconics John Timbs. ther he has a greater inclination to hear you , or that you should hear him . - Steele . CL . To smatter ends of Greek Or Latin to the rhetorique Of pedants counted , and vain - glorious , To smatter French is ...
Laconics John Timbs. ther he has a greater inclination to hear you , or that you should hear him . - Steele . CL . To smatter ends of Greek Or Latin to the rhetorique Of pedants counted , and vain - glorious , To smatter French is ...
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... hear with noses ; And , when they neither see nor hear , Have more than both supply'd by fear , That makes them in the dark see visions , And hag themselves with apparitions , And , when their eyes discover least , Discern the subtlest ...
... hear with noses ; And , when they neither see nor hear , Have more than both supply'd by fear , That makes them in the dark see visions , And hag themselves with apparitions , And , when their eyes discover least , Discern the subtlest ...
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... hears any thing more astonishedly than what he knows before . His words are like the cards at primivist , here 6 is 18 , and 7 , 21 ; for they never signify what they sound ; but if he tell you he will do a thing , it is much as if he ...
... hears any thing more astonishedly than what he knows before . His words are like the cards at primivist , here 6 is 18 , and 7 , 21 ; for they never signify what they sound ; but if he tell you he will do a thing , it is much as if he ...
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Page 191 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 233 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 207 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 246 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 264 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 242 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Page 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.