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Page 168
... tongue has once got the knack of lying , ' tis not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it . Whence it comes to pass that we see some men , who are otherwise very honest , so subject to this vice . I have an honest lad ...
... tongue has once got the knack of lying , ' tis not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it . Whence it comes to pass that we see some men , who are otherwise very honest , so subject to this vice . I have an honest lad ...
Page 205
... bring it home in their beak , without tasting it themselves , to feed their young ; so our pedants go pick- ing knowledge here and there , out of several authors , and hold it at their tongues ' end , only to THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 205.
... bring it home in their beak , without tasting it themselves , to feed their young ; so our pedants go pick- ing knowledge here and there , out of several authors , and hold it at their tongues ' end , only to THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 205.
Page 206
Tryon Edwards. hold it at their tongues ' end , only to distribute it among their pupils . - Montaigne . PEDANTRY AND BIGOTRY . - Pedantry and bigotry are mill- stones , able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their ...
Tryon Edwards. hold it at their tongues ' end , only to distribute it among their pupils . - Montaigne . PEDANTRY AND BIGOTRY . - Pedantry and bigotry are mill- stones , able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their ...
Page 271
... tongue leave to speak ; for the discovery of a man's self , by the tracts of his countenance , is a great weakness and be- traying , by how much it is many times more marked and be- lieved than a man's words . - Lord Bacon . SECRETS ...
... tongue leave to speak ; for the discovery of a man's self , by the tracts of his countenance , is a great weakness and be- traying , by how much it is many times more marked and be- lieved than a man's words . - Lord Bacon . SECRETS ...
Page 295
... tongue than them.— Chester- field . TALKING OF SELF . - The lover and physician are both pop- ular from the same cause . We talk to them only of our- selves . That , I dare say , was the origin of confession - ego- tism under the name ...
... tongue than them.— Chester- field . TALKING OF SELF . - The lover and physician are both pop- ular from the same cause . We talk to them only of our- selves . That , I dare say , was the origin of confession - ego- tism under the name ...
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