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... poor author , the mere table , or thing played upon . -Colton . AUTHORS , THEIR CONVERSATION AND WRITINGS . — A transi- tion from an author's book to his conversation , is too often like an entrance into a large city , after a distant ...
... poor author , the mere table , or thing played upon . -Colton . AUTHORS , THEIR CONVERSATION AND WRITINGS . — A transi- tion from an author's book to his conversation , is too often like an entrance into a large city , after a distant ...
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... poor man . ' BEST THINGS.- -A firm faith is the best divinity ; a good life the best philosophy ; a clear conscience , the best law honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . ; BIBLE . It is the light of my ...
... poor man . ' BEST THINGS.- -A firm faith is the best divinity ; a good life the best philosophy ; a clear conscience , the best law honesty , the best policy ; and temperance , the best physic . ; BIBLE . It is the light of my ...
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... - Joineriana , 1772 . BOOKS , THEIR VALUE . - There is not so poor a book in the world , that would not be a prodigious effort , were it wrought out entirely by a single mind , without the aid THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 31.
... - Joineriana , 1772 . BOOKS , THEIR VALUE . - There is not so poor a book in the world , that would not be a prodigious effort , were it wrought out entirely by a single mind , without the aid THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 31.
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... POOR . - Give work rather than alms to the poor . The former drives out indolence , the lat ter industry . CHARTERS , WHEN KEPT .-- Charters are kept when their pur - ` poses are maintained : they are violated when the privilege is ...
... POOR . - Give work rather than alms to the poor . The former drives out indolence , the lat ter industry . CHARTERS , WHEN KEPT .-- Charters are kept when their pur - ` poses are maintained : they are violated when the privilege is ...
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... poor ; without which all estates will re miser- able . - Sir P. Sidney . CONTENTMENT , ITS EFFECTS.- -If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a virtuous man , how sound he sleeps , how quiet his rest , how composed his mind ...
... poor ; without which all estates will re miser- able . - Sir P. Sidney . CONTENTMENT , ITS EFFECTS.- -If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a virtuous man , how sound he sleeps , how quiet his rest , how composed his mind ...
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