Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... actions ? those uncertainty divides ; By passions ? these dissimulation hides . Opinions ? they still take a wider range : Find , if you can , in what you cannot change . Manners with fortunes , humours turn with climes , Tenets with ...
... actions ? those uncertainty divides ; By passions ? these dissimulation hides . Opinions ? they still take a wider range : Find , if you can , in what you cannot change . Manners with fortunes , humours turn with climes , Tenets with ...
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... actions are his privy council , wherein no man must partake beside . He speaks under rule and prescription , and dares not show his teeth without Machiavel . He converses with his neighbour as he would in Spain , and fears an ...
... actions are his privy council , wherein no man must partake beside . He speaks under rule and prescription , and dares not show his teeth without Machiavel . He converses with his neighbour as he would in Spain , and fears an ...
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... action is all passion , and his speech interjections . He has an excellent faculty in be- moaning the people , and spits with a very good grace . His style is compounded of twenty several men's , only his body imitates some one ...
... action is all passion , and his speech interjections . He has an excellent faculty in be- moaning the people , and spits with a very good grace . His style is compounded of twenty several men's , only his body imitates some one ...
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... action.- Seneca . CCLXXIX . It is the glory and merit of some men to write well , and of others not to write at all . - Bruyere . CCLXXX . Words are but lackeys to sense , and will dance attendance without wages or compulsion : Verba ...
... action.- Seneca . CCLXXIX . It is the glory and merit of some men to write well , and of others not to write at all . - Bruyere . CCLXXX . Words are but lackeys to sense , and will dance attendance without wages or compulsion : Verba ...
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... action sits uneasy upon them ; for as the English use very little gesture in ordinary conversa- tion , our English - bred actors are obliged to supply stage gestures by their imagination alone . A French comedian finds proper models of ...
... action sits uneasy upon them ; for as the English use very little gesture in ordinary conversa- tion , our English - bred actors are obliged to supply stage gestures by their imagination alone . A French comedian finds proper models of ...
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