Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... 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 knaves than it hangs ; and , like the inns of 6 LACONICS .
... 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 knaves than it hangs ; and , like the inns of 6 LACONICS .
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... bear a doubt , if a gamester has any other title to be called a man , except under the dis- tinction of Hobbes , and upon claim to the charter of homo hominis lupus . - As a human wolf I grant he has a right to his wolfish prerogatives ...
... bear a doubt , if a gamester has any other title to be called a man , except under the dis- tinction of Hobbes , and upon claim to the charter of homo hominis lupus . - As a human wolf I grant he has a right to his wolfish prerogatives ...
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... bear . He knows little who will teli his wife all he knows . - Tatler . LXII . For still the wickeder some authors ... bears are said To spare those that lie still and seem but dead . Prologue by Butler . LXIII . There ought , no doubt ...
... bear . He knows little who will teli his wife all he knows . - Tatler . LXII . For still the wickeder some authors ... bears are said To spare those that lie still and seem but dead . Prologue by Butler . LXIII . There ought , no doubt ...
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... bear more plenty o ' wine ; And that which nature did intend T'enlarge his life , perverts t ' its end . XCI . Butler . One A drunkard is one that will be a man to - morrow morn- ing , but is now what you will make him , for he is in ...
... bear more plenty o ' wine ; And that which nature did intend T'enlarge his life , perverts t ' its end . XCI . Butler . One A drunkard is one that will be a man to - morrow morn- ing , but is now what you will make him , for he is in ...
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... bear is hardly to be understood among the polite people ; but I take the meaning to be , that one who insures a real value upon an imaginary thing , is said to sell a bear , and is the same thing as a promise among courtiers , or a vow ...
... bear is hardly to be understood among the polite people ; but I take the meaning to be , that one who insures a real value upon an imaginary thing , is said to sell a bear , and is the same thing as a promise among courtiers , or a vow ...
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