Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... tongue and his heart are always at variance , and fall out like rogues in the street , to pick somebody's pocket . They never agree but , like Herod and Pilate , to do mischief . His conscience never stands in his light , when the devil ...
... tongue and his heart are always at variance , and fall out like rogues in the street , to pick somebody's pocket . They never agree but , like Herod and Pilate , to do mischief . His conscience never stands in his light , when the devil ...
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... tongue , Or purposely to speak it wrong , A hopeful sign of parts and wit , And that they ' improve and benefit : As those that have been taught amiss In lib'ral arts and sciences , Must all they ' ad learnt before in vain Forget quite ...
... tongue , Or purposely to speak it wrong , A hopeful sign of parts and wit , And that they ' improve and benefit : As those that have been taught amiss In lib'ral arts and sciences , Must all they ' ad learnt before in vain Forget quite ...
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... tongue being but one by nature , he gets cloven by art and industry . Before the confusion of Babel , all the world was one continent in language : since divided intÉ” severall tongues , as severall ilands . Grammar is the 48 LACONICS .
... tongue being but one by nature , he gets cloven by art and industry . Before the confusion of Babel , all the world was one continent in language : since divided intÉ” severall tongues , as severall ilands . Grammar is the 48 LACONICS .
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Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors John Timbs. severall tongues , as severall ilands . Grammar is the ship , by benefit whereof we passe from one to another . His mother - tongue was like the dull music of a monochord , which by ...
Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors John Timbs. severall tongues , as severall ilands . Grammar is the ship , by benefit whereof we passe from one to another . His mother - tongue was like the dull music of a monochord , which by ...
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... or a mushroom can escape him . - Addison . CCLXXXVII . Grief hath two tongues , and never woman yet Could rule them both , withou tten women's wit . Shakspeare . CCLXXXVIII . As riches and favour forsake a man , 74 LACONICS .
... or a mushroom can escape him . - Addison . CCLXXXVII . Grief hath two tongues , and never woman yet Could rule them both , withou tten women's wit . Shakspeare . CCLXXXVIII . As riches and favour forsake a man , 74 LACONICS .
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