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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... my censure blaze ; But faith ! ' tis all in vain we do , The world believes nor me , nor you . " ABUSES- See Tory Administration , passim . Thank Heaven , B 5 HEADS AND TALES . 9 Of the Reductio ad absurdum, a very useful weapon ...
... my censure blaze ; But faith ! ' tis all in vain we do , The world believes nor me , nor you . " ABUSES- See Tory Administration , passim . Thank Heaven , B 5 HEADS AND TALES . 9 Of the Reductio ad absurdum, a very useful weapon ...
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... Heaven , the times are changed , and those who refuse to give up abuses , will inevitably be called upon to surrender uses . Will they take a hint , and make a compromise in time , or like the borough- mongers , dig a pit for themselves ...
... Heaven , the times are changed , and those who refuse to give up abuses , will inevitably be called upon to surrender uses . Will they take a hint , and make a compromise in time , or like the borough- mongers , dig a pit for themselves ...
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... ADVERSITY - is very often a blessing in disguise , which by detaching us from earth and drawing us towards heaven , gives us , in the assurance of lasting ones . joys , an abundant recompence for the loss HEADS AND TALES . 15.
... ADVERSITY - is very often a blessing in disguise , which by detaching us from earth and drawing us towards heaven , gives us , in the assurance of lasting ones . joys , an abundant recompence for the loss HEADS AND TALES . 15.
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... heaven , were themselves but blind guides , for , in the year 1562 , their Confession of Faith was altered and reduced to thirty - nine articles . Alas ! this Convocation was no more infallible than its 50 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR , have a ...
... heaven , were themselves but blind guides , for , in the year 1562 , their Confession of Faith was altered and reduced to thirty - nine articles . Alas ! this Convocation was no more infallible than its 50 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR , have a ...
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... heaven , and does not put out the smallest mortification except upon the most enormous interest . His very self - denial is selfish , for the odds are incalculably in favour of the man who bets body against soul . They who impiously ...
... heaven , and does not put out the smallest mortification except upon the most enormous interest . His very self - denial is selfish , for the odds are incalculably in favour of the man who bets body against soul . They who impiously ...
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Сторінка 60 - THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree...
Сторінка 238 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Сторінка 238 - 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 152 - Aeolides laboris: linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor, neque harum quas colis arborum te praeter invisas cupressos ulla brevem dominum sequetur: absumet heres Caecuba dignior servata centum clavibus et mero tinget pavimentum superbo, pontificum potiore cenis.
Сторінка 207 - 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 68 - 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 275 - 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 188 - 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 222 - 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 148 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.