Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... perhaps it may be with states as with clocks , which must have some lead weight hanging at them , to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts . - Pope . IX . Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels , and sometimes ...
... perhaps it may be with states as with clocks , which must have some lead weight hanging at them , to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts . - Pope . IX . Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels , and sometimes ...
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... life , life is gone ; and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the philosopher . - Hume . XXVI . Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging B 3 LACONICS . 5 XXI. ...
... life , life is gone ; and death , though perhaps they receive him differently vet treats alike the fool and the philosopher . - Hume . XXVI . Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging B 3 LACONICS . 5 XXI. ...
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... perhaps , accounts for many natural effects , he extends the same principle over the whole creation , and reduces it to every phenomenon , though by the most violent and absurd reasoning . Our own mind being narrow and contracted , we ...
... perhaps , accounts for many natural effects , he extends the same principle over the whole creation , and reduces it to every phenomenon , though by the most violent and absurd reasoning . Our own mind being narrow and contracted , we ...
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... 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 way remarkable , have each a strong disposition to the formation of some ...
... 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 way remarkable , have each a strong disposition to the formation of some ...
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... perhaps may be because no other vice implies a want of courage so much as the making of a lie ; and therefore telling a man he lies , is touching him in the most sensible part of honour , and indirectly calling him a coward . I cannot ...
... perhaps may be because no other vice implies a want of courage so much as the making of a lie ; and therefore telling a man he lies , is touching him in the most sensible part of honour , and indirectly calling him a coward . I cannot ...
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