Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. |
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... lives by rapine , and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind , and devour a knave as big as himself ; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself ; and if he can but get his head within his jaws , will carry the rest ...
... lives by rapine , and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind , and devour a knave as big as himself ; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself ; and if he can but get his head within his jaws , will carry the rest ...
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... lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and the soul ; it does not lie in the valour of our horse , nor of our arms , but in ourselves . He that falls obstinate in his courage , Si succiderit de genu pugnat ...
... lives ; valour is stability , not of legs and arms , but of courage and the soul ; it does not lie in the valour of our horse , nor of our arms , but in ourselves . He that falls obstinate in his courage , Si succiderit de genu pugnat ...
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... way towards the being a good christian , wheresoeyer he lives , or whatsoever he is called . - South . LXXVIII . Raillery is no longer agreeable only while the whole company is pleased with it . I would least of 20 LACONICS .
... way towards the being a good christian , wheresoeyer he lives , or whatsoever he is called . - South . LXXVIII . Raillery is no longer agreeable only while the whole company is pleased with it . I would least of 20 LACONICS .
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... lives , as tedious to him ; if there be Among the auditors , one whose conscience tells him He is of the same mould , we CANNOT HELp it . * * Or when a covetous man's express'd , whose wealth Arithmetic cannot number , and whose ...
... lives , as tedious to him ; if there be Among the auditors , one whose conscience tells him He is of the same mould , we CANNOT HELp it . * * Or when a covetous man's express'd , whose wealth Arithmetic cannot number , and whose ...
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... live , That none for them can , when they perish , grieve . Waller . From the French . XCIV . It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius ...
... live , That none for them can , when they perish , grieve . Waller . From the French . XCIV . It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius ...
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