World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... pain upon the dressing of a wound ; the one he passes by as an accident ; and the other , in his fashion , he acknowledges as a kindness : but offer to strike at him , and though you do him no hurt at all , he flies yet in the face of ...
... pain upon the dressing of a wound ; the one he passes by as an accident ; and the other , in his fashion , he acknowledges as a kindness : but offer to strike at him , and though you do him no hurt at all , he flies yet in the face of ...
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... pain ; but mirth , to a prudent man , should always be accidental . It should naturally arise out of the occasion , and the occasion seldom be laid for it ; for those tempers who want mirth to be pleased , are like the constitutions ...
... pain ; but mirth , to a prudent man , should always be accidental . It should naturally arise out of the occasion , and the occasion seldom be laid for it ; for those tempers who want mirth to be pleased , are like the constitutions ...
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... pains , who endeavor to persuade men that they are obliged wholly to despise this world and all that is in it , even whilst they themselves live here . God hath not taken all that pains in forming , and framing , and furnishing and ...
... pains , who endeavor to persuade men that they are obliged wholly to despise this world and all that is in it , even whilst they themselves live here . God hath not taken all that pains in forming , and framing , and furnishing and ...
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... pains and aches ; and imagine such narrations their quota of the conversation . This is of all other the meanest help to discourse , and a man must not think at all , or think himself very insignificant when he finds an account of his ...
... pains and aches ; and imagine such narrations their quota of the conversation . This is of all other the meanest help to discourse , and a man must not think at all , or think himself very insignificant when he finds an account of his ...
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... pains of getting sober . Colton . DRUNKENNESS , ITS EFFECTS . - All excess is ill ; but drunk enness is of the worst sort . It spoils health , dismounts the mind , and unmans men . It reveals secrets , is quarrelsome , lascivious ...
... pains of getting sober . Colton . DRUNKENNESS , ITS EFFECTS . - All excess is ill ; but drunk enness is of the worst sort . It spoils health , dismounts the mind , and unmans men . It reveals secrets , is quarrelsome , lascivious ...
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