Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Band 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... least a Præadamite ; for Lucifer was the first of his family , and from him he derives himself in an indirect line . He finds fault with the government , that he may get it the easier into his own hands , as men use to undervalue what ...
... least a Præadamite ; for Lucifer was the first of his family , and from him he derives himself in an indirect line . He finds fault with the government , that he may get it the easier into his own hands , as men use to undervalue what ...
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... least , before strangers . I knew a gentleman and his wife , who treated one another in public with all the respect and civility that can be imagined , so that you would swear they were the most affectionate couple that ever graced the ...
... least , before strangers . I knew a gentleman and his wife , who treated one another in public with all the respect and civility that can be imagined , so that you would swear they were the most affectionate couple that ever graced the ...
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... least restraint Upon our freedom , but maintain ' t ; Or if it does , ' t is for our good , To give us freer latitude ; For wholesome laws preserve us free , By stinting of our liberty . XLVII . Butler In order to look into any person's ...
... least restraint Upon our freedom , but maintain ' t ; Or if it does , ' t is for our good , To give us freer latitude ; For wholesome laws preserve us free , By stinting of our liberty . XLVII . Butler In order to look into any person's ...
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... least manageable . To know one profession only is enough for one man ; and this ( whatever the professors may tell you to the con- trary ) is soon learned . Be contented , therefore , with one good employment ; for if you understand two ...
... least manageable . To know one profession only is enough for one man ; and this ( whatever the professors may tell you to the con- trary ) is soon learned . Be contented , therefore , with one good employment ; for if you understand two ...
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... least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his fault , for he was laid as fair for it as he could . Every man sees him , as Cham saw his father the first of this sin , an uncovered man , and though his garment be on ...
... least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his fault , for he was laid as fair for it as he could . Every man sees him , as Cham saw his father the first of this sin , an uncovered man , and though his garment be on ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 183 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Seite 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Seite 223 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Seite 199 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Seite 238 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Seite 258 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Seite 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Seite 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...