World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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Page 70
... weaker side sets up false lights , and makes a great noise , to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are . - Swift . DISSIMULATION . - Dissimulation is but a faint kind of 70 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... weaker side sets up false lights , and makes a great noise , to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are . - Swift . DISSIMULATION . - Dissimulation is but a faint kind of 70 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
Page 71
... light of the toil , and we describe the circle as me- chanically as a horse in a mill . — Zimmerman . DISTINCTIONS . - When a doubt is propounded , you must learn to distinguish , and show wherein a thing holds , and wherein it doth not ...
... light of the toil , and we describe the circle as me- chanically as a horse in a mill . — Zimmerman . DISTINCTIONS . - When a doubt is propounded , you must learn to distinguish , and show wherein a thing holds , and wherein it doth not ...
Page 76
... light . — Addison . EDUCATION AN INHERITANCE . - An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate . Addison . EDUCATION AN INVESTMENT . - If a man empties his purse into his head ...
... light . — Addison . EDUCATION AN INHERITANCE . - An industrious and virtuous education of children is a better inheritance for them than a great estate . Addison . EDUCATION AN INVESTMENT . - If a man empties his purse into his head ...
Page 86
... light , but error follows a false one . The consequence is , that error when she retraces her steps , has farther to go before she can arrive at truth , than ignorance.— Colton . ERROR , THE WAY TO DEFEAT IT . - My principal method for ...
... light , but error follows a false one . The consequence is , that error when she retraces her steps , has farther to go before she can arrive at truth , than ignorance.— Colton . ERROR , THE WAY TO DEFEAT IT . - My principal method for ...
Page 97
... lights in the most plain and simple diet . Every animal , but man , keeps to one dish . Herbs are the food of this species , fish of that , and flesh of a third . Man falls upon everything that comes in his way ; not the smallest fruit ...
... lights in the most plain and simple diet . Every animal , but man , keeps to one dish . Herbs are the food of this species , fish of that , and flesh of a third . Man falls upon everything that comes in his way ; not the smallest fruit ...
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