The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Band 1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 Seiten |
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... existence . We claim praise for not having pushed our vices farther , but we feel no shame for having carried them so far ; as if there were a positive merit in sinning , provided we stop short of the ne plus ultra of turpitude . An ...
... existence . We claim praise for not having pushed our vices farther , but we feel no shame for having carried them so far ; as if there were a positive merit in sinning , provided we stop short of the ne plus ultra of turpitude . An ...
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... existence . The laws of society , and the restraints upon opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the ...
... existence . The laws of society , and the restraints upon opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the ...
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... Existence may be compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his ...
... Existence may be compared to a drum , which has only one single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his ...
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... existence , in the chief Italian towns , manufactories of copies and counterfeits for the sole supply of England , in whic happy and discerning country may be found ten times more pictures of each of the old masters , than could have ...
... existence , in the chief Italian towns , manufactories of copies and counterfeits for the sole supply of England , in whic happy and discerning country may be found ten times more pictures of each of the old masters , than could have ...
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... existence ; still to propose to ourselves an ob- ject , of which every passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to ...
... existence ; still to propose to ourselves an ob- ject , of which every passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to ...
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abuse amusing ancient ANTISTROPHE Athanasian Creed badger-baiting barrister beauty become believe better Bishop Bishop Hoadly blind character Christianity Church creatures creed death delight despot earth England envy epicure equally evanescent evil exclaimed faith favour fear feeling folly fools forget former fortune French give hand happy head heart heaven honour human imagine imitation instance intolerance Jack Ketch king lady latter less live Lord Madame de Stael man's ment Merry Andrew mind miserable moral Muggletonian nation nature never nonsense verses object opinion orange colour ourselves party Pharisee pleasure possess present racter Reform religion religious rendered replied retributive justice rotten boroughs says seldom sense society sometimes soul spirit sympathy talent term thing thirty-nine articles thou thought throw Tin Trumpet tion truth virtue Voltaire wife word write
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Seite 48 - 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.
Seite 170 - 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.
Seite 158 - 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.
Seite 50 - 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.
Seite 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 148 - 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.
Seite 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Seite 135 - 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.
Seite 107 - 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.
Seite 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.