Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... conversation is never so much strait- ened and confined as in numerous assemblies . - Addison . CLXVI . He , who gives himself airs of importance , exhibits the credentials of impotence . - Lavater . CLXVII . There is no instance of a ...
... conversation is never so much strait- ened and confined as in numerous assemblies . - Addison . CLXVI . He , who gives himself airs of importance , exhibits the credentials of impotence . - Lavater . CLXVII . There is no instance of a ...
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... conversation with him every day for three years . - La- vater . CXCV . Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry accord- ing to their capacity of judging , into three classes . [ He might have said the same of writers too , if he ...
... conversation with him every day for three years . - La- vater . CXCV . Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry accord- ing to their capacity of judging , into three classes . [ He might have said the same of writers too , if he ...
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... conversation with men of judgment ) they soon forsake them . " -- Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that ...
... conversation with men of judgment ) they soon forsake them . " -- Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that ...
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... conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures . Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short ...
... conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures . Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short ...
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... conversation between intimate friends , the wisest men very often talk like the weakest ; for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud . - Addison . CCCXXVIII . An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ...
... conversation between intimate friends , the wisest men very often talk like the weakest ; for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud . - Addison . CCCXXVIII . An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ...
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