Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 2 |
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Page 25
... conceive themselves to have a better title than the congenial friends of my selection , I profess not to comprehend . VOL . II . C Job complains that even his kinsfolk have failed him , COZENING COUSINS AND CAUSTIC COMPLIMENTS . 25.
... conceive themselves to have a better title than the congenial friends of my selection , I profess not to comprehend . VOL . II . C Job complains that even his kinsfolk have failed him , COZENING COUSINS AND CAUSTIC COMPLIMENTS . 25.
Page 28
... better to job them . I chose , however , to purchase one of them shortly died , and , instead of sympathising with my loss , she became rampant with delight at the verification of her prognostics . Verily , said I in a pet , relations ...
... better to job them . I chose , however , to purchase one of them shortly died , and , instead of sympathising with my loss , she became rampant with delight at the verification of her prognostics . Verily , said I in a pet , relations ...
Page 32
... better plea For boasting of its pedigree , For his was brew'd at home , and he Himself was infinitely fatter . One cask he had , better and stronger Than all the rest - brew'd at a christening— To pass it set his eyes a - glistening ...
... better plea For boasting of its pedigree , For his was brew'd at home , and he Himself was infinitely fatter . One cask he had , better and stronger Than all the rest - brew'd at a christening— To pass it set his eyes a - glistening ...
Page 58
... better chances of immor- tality than virtue and wisdom ; for the former only are registered in our Courts and Calends ; and as blood and misery are the materials with which history builds , one destroyer of mankind shall outlast fifty ...
... better chances of immor- tality than virtue and wisdom ; for the former only are registered in our Courts and Calends ; and as blood and misery are the materials with which history builds , one destroyer of mankind shall outlast fifty ...
Page 61
... better to have something to fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his children the better , when he considers them as the depositaries and concentrations of past anxieties . They exhilarate his life ...
... better to have something to fear than nothing to hope . A father has no tadium vita ; and he loves his children the better , when he considers them as the depositaries and concentrations of past anxieties . They exhilarate his life ...
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