The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Том 1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 стор. |
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... thing in the nature of a club , as the reader will perceive , on a reference to that word in the present work , my friend recoiled with an insurmountable aversion , only consenting to be named President of the Tea Party , on condition ...
... thing in the nature of a club , as the reader will perceive , on a reference to that word in the present work , my friend recoiled with an insurmountable aversion , only consenting to be named President of the Tea Party , on condition ...
Сторінка xii
... thing intentionally bitter , nor could his heart harbour a single angry feeling . This is not the place , how- ever , to expatiate upon his character , as it is my intention to make his life , for which I had been col- lecting materials ...
... thing intentionally bitter , nor could his heart harbour a single angry feeling . This is not the place , how- ever , to expatiate upon his character , as it is my intention to make his life , for which I had been col- lecting materials ...
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... thing im- plicated , and makes it fall into the ablative case abso- lute . Though corruptions are nouns substantive , they cannot stand by themselves ; and abuses , which used to be plural , will soon become singular . The verb " to ...
... thing im- plicated , and makes it fall into the ablative case abso- lute . Though corruptions are nouns substantive , they cannot stand by themselves ; and abuses , which used to be plural , will soon become singular . The verb " to ...
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... things are perpe- tually flowing , although none come out . His shoul- ders , like some of the civic streets , are " widened at the expence of the corporation . " He resembles Wol- sey ; not in ranking himself with princes , but in ...
... things are perpe- tually flowing , although none come out . His shoul- ders , like some of the civic streets , are " widened at the expence of the corporation . " He resembles Wol- sey ; not in ranking himself with princes , but in ...
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... thing in his head , and he has nothing par- ticularly good about him , except his digestion , which is an indispensable quality , since he is destined to become great by gormandising , to masticate his way to the Mansion - house , and ...
... thing in his head , and he has nothing par- ticularly good about him , except his digestion , which is an indispensable quality , since he is destined to become great by gormandising , to masticate his way to the Mansion - house , and ...
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The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To ..., Том 1 Horace Smith Повний перегляд - 1836 |
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Сторінка 67 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Сторінка 240 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Сторінка 224 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Сторінка 70 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Сторінка 277 - I would only ask, why the civil state should be purged and restored by good and wholesome laws, made every third or fourth year in parliament assembled ; devising remedies as fast as time breedeth mischief: and contrariwise the ecclesiastical state should still continue upon the dregs of time, and receive no alteration now for these...
Сторінка 209 - Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy ! S.
Сторінка 191 - There is surely a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me, I am the image of God as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.
Сторінка 240 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Сторінка 190 - The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Сторінка 114 - Every other idea, and every other end, that have been mixed with this, as the making of the church an engine, or even an ally, of the state ; converting it into the means of strengthening or...