Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... come to an untimely end , for by the course of law his glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to be false unlawful coin , he was seized upon , and cut in pieces ...
... come to an untimely end , for by the course of law his glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to be false unlawful coin , he was seized upon , and cut in pieces ...
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... come in his way , he stands dumb and astonished , and though his haste be never so great , will fix here half an ... comes to church in his best clothes , and sits there with his neighbours , where he is capable only of two prayers ...
... come in his way , he stands dumb and astonished , and though his haste be never so great , will fix here half an ... comes to church in his best clothes , and sits there with his neighbours , where he is capable only of two prayers ...
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... come when it will , he cares not.- Bishop Earle . LXV . He who in questions of right , virtue , or duty , sets him ... come together , ( which they count Castor and Pollux ) they presage good success . But sure in a family it bodeth most ...
... come when it will , he cares not.- Bishop Earle . LXV . He who in questions of right , virtue , or duty , sets him ... come together , ( which they count Castor and Pollux ) they presage good success . But sure in a family it bodeth most ...
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... come out now , all his va- nities , and those shamefuller humours which discretion clothes . His body becomes at last like a miry way , where the spirits are beclogged and cannot pass : all his members are out of office , and his heels ...
... come out now , all his va- nities , and those shamefuller humours which discretion clothes . His body becomes at last like a miry way , where the spirits are beclogged and cannot pass : all his members are out of office , and his heels ...
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... come from him as a battle , wounded and bound up . No- thing takes a man off more from his credit , and business , and makes him more retchlessly careless what becomes of all . Indeed , he dares not enter on a serious thought , or if he ...
... come from him as a battle , wounded and bound up . No- thing takes a man off more from his credit , and business , and makes him more retchlessly careless what becomes of all . Indeed , he dares not enter on a serious thought , or if he ...
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