Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars . Nay , some carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can re- semble ...
... whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars . Nay , some carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can re- semble ...
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... faster than it does . Several hours of the day hang upon our hands , nay , we wish away whole years , and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes , which we would fain B 2 LACONICS . 3 X. ...
... faster than it does . Several hours of the day hang upon our hands , nay , we wish away whole years , and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes , which we would fain B 2 LACONICS . 3 X. ...
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... whole race of them ; scarce a boy in the streets , but has in this point outdone Hercules him- self , who was famous for killing a monster that had but three lives . Whether the unaccountable animosity against this useful domestic , may ...
... whole race of them ; scarce a boy in the streets , but has in this point outdone Hercules him- self , who was famous for killing a monster that had but three lives . Whether the unaccountable animosity against this useful domestic , may ...
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... whole creation , and reduces it to every phenomenon , though by the most violent and absurd reasoning . Our own mind being narrow and contracted , we cannot extend our con- ception to the variety and extent of nature ; but imagine that ...
... whole creation , and reduces it to every phenomenon , though by the most violent and absurd reasoning . Our own mind being narrow and contracted , we cannot extend our con- ception to the variety and extent of nature ; but imagine that ...
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... whole race of mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person ...
... whole race of mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary , if the miseries of the whole species were fixed in a single person ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racter reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn Twill vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young