Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1 |
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... true wit generally consists in the resemblance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly consists in the re- semblance and congruity sometimes of single letters , as in anagrams , chronograms , lipograms , and acrostics : sometimes of ...
... true wit generally consists in the resemblance and congruity of ideas , false wit chiefly consists in the re- semblance and congruity sometimes of single letters , as in anagrams , chronograms , lipograms , and acrostics : sometimes of ...
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... true , I would engage to run again , from begin- ning to end , the same career of life . All I would ask , should be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , certain errors of the first . - Franklin's Life . XIII ...
... true , I would engage to run again , from begin- ning to end , the same career of life . All I would ask , should be the privilege of an author , to correct , in a second edition , certain errors of the first . - Franklin's Life . XIII ...
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... true critic , it will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind , which , perhaps , for a less purchase , would be thought but an in- different bargain . — Swift . XLV . Nothing is more evident than that divers persons , no other ...
... true critic , it will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind , which , perhaps , for a less purchase , would be thought but an in- different bargain . — Swift . XLV . Nothing is more evident than that divers persons , no other ...
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... at once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense , which is that which the author meant when he wrote it . - Selden . LXXXVI . The covetous man is a downright servant , c 3 LACONICS . 17 the horse, to make use of the bow, ...
... at once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense , which is that which the author meant when he wrote it . - Selden . LXXXVI . The covetous man is a downright servant , c 3 LACONICS . 17 the horse, to make use of the bow, ...
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... true in- deed , that sallies of wit and quick replies are very pleasing in conversation , but they frequently tend to raise envy in some of the company , but the narrative way nei- ther raises this , nor any other evil passion , but ...
... true in- deed , that sallies of wit and quick replies are very pleasing in conversation , but they frequently tend to raise envy in some of the company , but the narrative way nei- ther raises this , nor any other evil passion , but ...
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