Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 стор. |
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... keep up his dignity . In gluttony there must be eating , in drunkenness there must be drinking ; ' tis not the eating , nor ' tis not the drinking that must be blamed , but the excess . So in pride . - Selden . XXXVI . Those beings only ...
... keep up his dignity . In gluttony there must be eating , in drunkenness there must be drinking ; ' tis not the eating , nor ' tis not the drinking that must be blamed , but the excess . So in pride . - Selden . XXXVI . Those beings only ...
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... keep them idle . - Johnson . XXXIX . In proportion that credulity is a more peaceful posses- sion of the mind than curiosity . so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface , to that pre- tended philosophy which ...
... keep them idle . - Johnson . XXXIX . In proportion that credulity is a more peaceful posses- sion of the mind than curiosity . so far preferable is that wisdom which converses about the surface , to that pre- tended philosophy which ...
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... keep their respective humours from degenerating into the neighbouring extreme ; there being a natural tendency in the one to a melancholy moroseness , and in the other to a fantastic levity . - Addison . LII . The best of men appear ...
... keep their respective humours from degenerating into the neighbouring extreme ; there being a natural tendency in the one to a melancholy moroseness , and in the other to a fantastic levity . - Addison . LII . The best of men appear ...
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... keeps all the company nearly upon an equality , and if judiciously managed , will at once entertain and improve them all.- Johnson . XC . There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well ! Measure by man's desires ...
... keeps all the company nearly upon an equality , and if judiciously managed , will at once entertain and improve them all.- Johnson . XC . There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well ! Measure by man's desires ...
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... keep to what is settled , and then you may flourish upon your various lections . - Selden . : CLIX . The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life , are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life and as some must ...
... keep to what is settled , and then you may flourish upon your various lections . - Selden . : CLIX . The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life , are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life and as some must ...
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