The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus; Democritus, the Merry Philosopher of Greece, and Their Illustrious Disciples, Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq., Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcot, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, and OthersSherwood, Jones, 1825 - 767 Seiten |
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... never bacon till it has been hung , and therefore , until you are hung , you can be no relation of mine . " CHINA AND CROCKERY . A lady of rank one day remarked to a large company of visitors , that the three classes of the community ...
... never bacon till it has been hung , and therefore , until you are hung , you can be no relation of mine . " CHINA AND CROCKERY . A lady of rank one day remarked to a large company of visitors , that the three classes of the community ...
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... Never mind that , " said the man of dough ; you will have the less to carry . " - " True , " replied the lad , and throwing three - half - pence on the counter , left the shop . The baker called after him that he had not left " Never ...
... Never mind that , " said the man of dough ; you will have the less to carry . " - " True , " replied the lad , and throwing three - half - pence on the counter , left the shop . The baker called after him that he had not left " Never ...
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... never look a gift horse in the mouth . " In a trial at the Old Bailey , for sheep - stealing , the prosecutor , a butcher , gave a long account of his tracing the sheep from place to place ; that he first went to Acton , then to Ealing ...
... never look a gift horse in the mouth . " In a trial at the Old Bailey , for sheep - stealing , the prosecutor , a butcher , gave a long account of his tracing the sheep from place to place ; that he first went to Acton , then to Ealing ...
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... never forgotten this little incident of my incidental life ; it has served to check me , when I have coveted that which I did not want . And now , when I learn that some one , always famous for his covetousness , bas at last been ...
... never forgotten this little incident of my incidental life ; it has served to check me , when I have coveted that which I did not want . And now , when I learn that some one , always famous for his covetousness , bas at last been ...
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... never find out the bottom of this vanity . I indeed have heard of a Gascon general , who , by the lucky grazing of a bullet on the roll of his stocking , took occasion to halt all his life after . But as for our peaceable cripples , I ...
... never find out the bottom of this vanity . I indeed have heard of a Gascon general , who , by the lucky grazing of a bullet on the roll of his stocking , took occasion to halt all his life after . But as for our peaceable cripples , I ...
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Seite 481 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Seite 408 - ... as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes...
Seite 450 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Seite 408 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Seite 409 - 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 horseshoe nail.
Seite 576 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Seite 411 - Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Seite 451 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig: There at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they darena cross. But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake! For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi...
Seite 539 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Seite 450 - Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet. Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry. By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro...