World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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Page 32
... hand before you lay a brick ; and al- ways calculate the expense at double the estimate . - Kett . BUSINESS . To men addicted to delights , business is an interruption to such as are cold to delights , business is an entertainment . For ...
... hand before you lay a brick ; and al- ways calculate the expense at double the estimate . - Kett . BUSINESS . To men addicted to delights , business is an interruption to such as are cold to delights , business is an entertainment . For ...
Page 42
... Steele . COMMERCE . - A well - regulated commerce is not , like law , physis , or divinity , to be overstocked with hands ; but , on the contrary , flourishes by multitudes , and gives employment to 42 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... Steele . COMMERCE . - A well - regulated commerce is not , like law , physis , or divinity , to be overstocked with hands ; but , on the contrary , flourishes by multitudes , and gives employment to 42 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
Page 59
... hand , but is not able to discern things at a distance . Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a great- er authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning , when it is once detected , loses its force , and makes a man incapa ...
... hand , but is not able to discern things at a distance . Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a great- er authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning , when it is once detected , loses its force , and makes a man incapa ...
Page 62
... hands . Sterne . DEATH OF OLD AND YOUNG . - One of the fathers saith , " There is but this difference between the death of old men and young men ; that old men go to death , and death comes to young men . " DEATH OF THE CHRISTIAN ...
... hands . Sterne . DEATH OF OLD AND YOUNG . - One of the fathers saith , " There is but this difference between the death of old men and young men ; that old men go to death , and death comes to young men . " DEATH OF THE CHRISTIAN ...
Page 66
... hands ; but if we anticipate our good fortune , we shall lose the pleasure of it when it arrives , and may possibly never possess what we have so foolishly counted on.- . -Addison . DESPAIR .-- Despair is like froward children , who ...
... hands ; but if we anticipate our good fortune , we shall lose the pleasure of it when it arrives , and may possibly never possess what we have so foolishly counted on.- . -Addison . DESPAIR .-- Despair is like froward children , who ...
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