Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... plays a game with the hangman for the clothes on his back ; and when he throws out , he strips him to the skin . He dies in hempen sheets , and his body is hanged , like his ancestor Mahomet's , in the air He might have lived longer ...
... plays a game with the hangman for the clothes on his back ; and when he throws out , he strips him to the skin . He dies in hempen sheets , and his body is hanged , like his ancestor Mahomet's , in the air He might have lived longer ...
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... play , without understanding the dialect , may , indeed , discover which of the actors are best dressed , and how well the scenes are painted or disposed ; but the characters and conduct of the drama must for ever remain a secret to him ...
... play , without understanding the dialect , may , indeed , discover which of the actors are best dressed , and how well the scenes are painted or disposed ; but the characters and conduct of the drama must for ever remain a secret to him ...
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... play'd . Waller . To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually founded in humility , for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our ...
... play'd . Waller . To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually founded in humility , for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our ...
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... playing with a snuff - box , he spent some part of his time in making one ? Such a method as this would very much conduce to the public emolu- ment , by making every man living good for something : for there would then be no one member ...
... playing with a snuff - box , he spent some part of his time in making one ? Such a method as this would very much conduce to the public emolu- ment , by making every man living good for something : for there would then be no one member ...
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... play is dead long since , And not within their power ; for bears are said To spare those that lie still and seem but dead . Prologue by Butler . LXIII . There ought , no doubt , to be heroes in society as well as butchers ; and who ...
... play is dead long since , And not within their power ; for bears are said To spare those that lie still and seem but dead . Prologue by Butler . LXIII . There ought , no doubt , to be heroes in society as well as butchers ; and who ...
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