Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. |
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... seldom find a dull fellow of good education , but , if he happens to have any leisure upon his hands , will turn his head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The former of these arts is the ...
... seldom find a dull fellow of good education , but , if he happens to have any leisure upon his hands , will turn his head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The former of these arts is the ...
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... seldom commits any villainy , but in a legal way , and makes the law bear him out in that for which it hangs others . He always robs under the vizor of law , and picks pockets with tricks in equity . By his means the law makes more ...
... seldom commits any villainy , but in a legal way , and makes the law bear him out in that for which it hangs others . He always robs under the vizor of law , and picks pockets with tricks in equity . By his means the law makes more ...
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... seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with , because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself . - Steele . XXXVII . The same word in the Greek ( os ) signifies rust and poyson ; and some ...
... seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with , because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself . - Steele . XXXVII . The same word in the Greek ( os ) signifies rust and poyson ; and some ...
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... seldom any thing entertaining either in the im- pudence of a South or North Briton ; but that of an Irish- man is always comic . A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance without the least sense of it.— Steele . CXL ...
... seldom any thing entertaining either in the im- pudence of a South or North Briton ; but that of an Irish- man is always comic . A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance without the least sense of it.— Steele . CXL ...
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... seldom turns to account ; for the commo- dity is perishable , and the finer it is , the worse it endures transportation ; as the most delicate of Indian fruits are by no art to be brought over . Nevertheless he seldom fails in his ...
... seldom turns to account ; for the commo- dity is perishable , and the finer it is , the worse it endures transportation ; as the most delicate of Indian fruits are by no art to be brought over . Nevertheless he seldom fails in his ...
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