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" For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books On Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being wet ; and... "
Second Latin Writer: Containing Hints on Writing Latin Prose with Graduated ... - Page 186
by George Lovett Bennett - 1880 - 190 pages
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The Reformed Church record, Volume 1

Reformed episcopal Church of England - 1881 - 416 pages
...... It could not condescend to the humble office of ministering to the comfort of human beings . . . "We shall next be told," exclaims Seneca, " that the...author of the three books On Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being...
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Macaulay

Morison - 1882 - 212 pages
...consideration. Dogs have no objection to tainted meat, and nothing can smell worse than bilge water. "For our part, if we are forced to make our choice between...author of the three books on Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker ; " and one may add, you are certain to gain the gallery's applause by so doing. "To...
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Macaulay

James Cotter Morison - 1882 - 236 pages
...consideration. Dogs have no objection to tainted meat, and nothing can smell worse than bilgewater. " For our part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three 1 He was benevolent, but unsympathetic ; he cared not for the beauty of nature, he detested dogs, and,...
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Critical and historical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...indeed, very much resemble several expressions in the Xovum Orgaiium. " We shall next be told," «claims Macaulay the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being...
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...Epitt. 90. much resemble several expressions in 1he Novum Orgamtm. " We shall next be told," exelaims n Macaulay the shoemaker. It may be worse to be an^ry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being...
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Reviews, Essays, and Poems

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1890 - 1100 pages
...indeed, very much resemble several expressions in the Л'01'tun Organvm. " We sliall next, te fold," atal to the infant Commonwealth. No men occupy so splendid a place in history as those aro forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and tLe author of the three books On Anger,...
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Lord Macaulay's Essays ; And, Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1892 - 934 pages
...defence of the murder of a mother by a son. much resemble several expressions in the " Novum Organum." "We shall n 0 be told," exclaims Seneca, " that the first shoemaker was a philosopher." y For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoe- I <•*! •' < maker...
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Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1895 - 934 pages
...Baconian philosophy, and would, indeed, very much resemble several expressions in the Nmum Organum. ' ' et paid little or no attention to the internal government...were the resources of his fruitful mind by any mean the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being...
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Moral Evolution

George Harris - Ethics - 1896 - 470 pages
...This is universal testimony. Men know more than they practice. Macaulay, in homely contrast, says : " For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice...author of the three books on Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being...
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Macaulay

James Cotter Morison - 1902 - 216 pages
...consideration. Dogs have no objection to tainted meat, and nothing can smell worse than bilge water. "For our part, if we are forced to make our choice between...author of the three books on Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker ; " and one may add, you are certain to gain the gallery's applause by so doing. "To...
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