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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... reason that the most sensitive young lady will remain unmoved at the hundredth reperusal of the tragedy , which at first drew a flood of tears from her eyes ; but the mimic , in order to carry our sympathies with him , must at least ...
... reason that the most sensitive young lady will remain unmoved at the hundredth reperusal of the tragedy , which at first drew a flood of tears from her eyes ; but the mimic , in order to carry our sympathies with him , must at least ...
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... reason , and justice , seem equally to require that the temptation of sale- able advowsons should be removed from his path , and that these spiritual rotten boroughs should be consigned to the tomb of their parliamentary brethren in ...
... reason , and justice , seem equally to require that the temptation of sale- able advowsons should be removed from his path , and that these spiritual rotten boroughs should be consigned to the tomb of their parliamentary brethren in ...
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... reason , but often paralyses , for the moment , the bodily energies ; a paroxysm which fortunately serves as a protection both to ourselves and others . This seasonable arrest of our functions gives us time to sanify , and we are ...
... reason , but often paralyses , for the moment , the bodily energies ; a paroxysm which fortunately serves as a protection both to ourselves and others . This seasonable arrest of our functions gives us time to sanify , and we are ...
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... reasons for dislike of their fellow crea- tures , they should be careful not to indulge imaginary ones . And yet some people , forgetting the precept of " Fas est et ah hoste doceri , " have such a blind antipathy against a politi- eal ...
... reasons for dislike of their fellow crea- tures , they should be careful not to indulge imaginary ones . And yet some people , forgetting the precept of " Fas est et ah hoste doceri , " have such a blind antipathy against a politi- eal ...
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... reasons for dislike of their fellow crea- tures , they should be careful not to indulge imaginary ones . And yet some people , forgetting the precept of " Fas est et ab hoste doceri , " have such a blind antipathy against a politi- cal ...
... reasons for dislike of their fellow crea- tures , they should be careful not to indulge imaginary ones . And yet some people , forgetting the precept of " Fas est et ab hoste doceri , " have such a blind antipathy against a politi- cal ...
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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.