Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... Pride may be allowed to this or that degree , else a man cannot keep up his dignity . In gluttony there must be eating , in drunkenness there must be drinking ; ' tis not the eating , nor ' tis not the drinking that must be blamed , but ...
... Pride may be allowed to this or that degree , else a man cannot keep up his dignity . In gluttony there must be eating , in drunkenness there must be drinking ; ' tis not the eating , nor ' tis not the drinking that must be blamed , but ...
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... pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience . - Smollet . XLI . In tragedy , the poet who flourished in the scene , is damned in the ruelle ; nay more , is not esteemed a good poet ...
... pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience . - Smollet . XLI . In tragedy , the poet who flourished in the scene , is damned in the ruelle ; nay more , is not esteemed a good poet ...
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... frequently from the " hear him , " of the house of commons . - Pope . XLVI . -Slander lives upon succession ; For ever hous'd when once it gets possession . Shakspeare XLVII . Pride , treachery , envy , hypocrisy , LACONICS . 9 XLIII. ...
... frequently from the " hear him , " of the house of commons . - Pope . XLVI . -Slander lives upon succession ; For ever hous'd when once it gets possession . Shakspeare XLVII . Pride , treachery , envy , hypocrisy , LACONICS . 9 XLIII. ...
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Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors John Timbs. XLVII . Pride , treachery , envy , hypocrisy , malice , cruelty , and self - love , may have been said , in one shape or other , to have occasioned all the frauds and mischiefs that ever ...
Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors John Timbs. XLVII . Pride , treachery , envy , hypocrisy , malice , cruelty , and self - love , may have been said , in one shape or other , to have occasioned all the frauds and mischiefs that ever ...
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... pride and dissimulation and bribery at Whitehall : you may expose rapine and injustice in the inns of court ; and in a city pulpit be as fierce as you please against avarice , hypocrisy , and extortion . ' Tis but a ball ban- died to ...
... pride and dissimulation and bribery at Whitehall : you may expose rapine and injustice in the inns of court ; and in a city pulpit be as fierce as you please against avarice , hypocrisy , and extortion . ' Tis but a ball ban- died to ...
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