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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... humanity . So true is the dictum of Tacitus , that the throne of a despot is generally ascended by a wild beast . Free insti- tutions are the best , indeed the only security , both for the go- verned and the governor ; for there is no ...
... humanity . So true is the dictum of Tacitus , that the throne of a despot is generally ascended by a wild beast . Free insti- tutions are the best , indeed the only security , both for the go- verned and the governor ; for there is no ...
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... human mind of adapting itself to circumstances , that we can reconcile ourselves , at least , partially , to our own crimes and infamy . The stings of conscience would be intolerable , could we not lay some flat- tering unction to our ...
... human mind of adapting itself to circumstances , that we can reconcile ourselves , at least , partially , to our own crimes and infamy . The stings of conscience would be intolerable , could we not lay some flat- tering unction to our ...
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... human beings to idols , burnt them in Smith- field as heretics or witches , believed in astrology , demono- logy , sorcery , the philosopher's stone , and every exploded folly and enormity ; although his example is still gravely urged ...
... human beings to idols , burnt them in Smith- field as heretics or witches , believed in astrology , demono- logy , sorcery , the philosopher's stone , and every exploded folly and enormity ; although his example is still gravely urged ...
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... human beings to idols , burnt them in Smith- field as heretics or witches , believed in astrology , demono- logy , sorcery , the philosopher's stone , and every exploded folly and enormity ; although his example is still gravely urged ...
... human beings to idols , burnt them in Smith- field as heretics or witches , believed in astrology , demono- logy , sorcery , the philosopher's stone , and every exploded folly and enormity ; although his example is still gravely urged ...
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... human bad money is current in society , bearing the fair impress of ladies and gentlemen . The former , if carefully weighed , will always be found light , or you may presently detect if you ring them , though this is a somewhat ...
... human bad money is current in society , bearing the fair impress of ladies and gentlemen . The former , if carefully weighed , will always be found light , or you may presently detect if you ring them , though this is a somewhat ...
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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.