The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... pass for a rich man . A reserved behaviour , arising from ignorance , often passes for wisdom ; as many , by a stupid silence , have passed for learned . In the ac- count of Moliere's life , we find that as he 28 SELECT PASSAGES.
... pass for a rich man . A reserved behaviour , arising from ignorance , often passes for wisdom ; as many , by a stupid silence , have passed for learned . In the ac- count of Moliere's life , we find that as he 28 SELECT PASSAGES.
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... passes around them , except where that observation is the branch or sucker of the darling plant they are rearing in their fancy . Nor am I sure that , notwithstand- ing all the sentimental flights of novel writers , and the sage ...
... passes around them , except where that observation is the branch or sucker of the darling plant they are rearing in their fancy . Nor am I sure that , notwithstand- ing all the sentimental flights of novel writers , and the sage ...
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... passes restless nights , though he has nothing to fear : the squanderer sleeps soundly , and leaves want of repose to his creditors . The hoarding miser is a ridicu lous creature , and the prodigal a noxious animal . - Ibid . CX . The ...
... passes restless nights , though he has nothing to fear : the squanderer sleeps soundly , and leaves want of repose to his creditors . The hoarding miser is a ridicu lous creature , and the prodigal a noxious animal . - Ibid . CX . The ...
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... passes into an act . - Ibid . CXI . On Education.'Twas not to learn foreign languages that the Grecian and Roman youths went for so long to- gether to the academies and lectures of their philosophers . ' Twas not then , as now , with us ...
... passes into an act . - Ibid . CXI . On Education.'Twas not to learn foreign languages that the Grecian and Roman youths went for so long to- gether to the academies and lectures of their philosophers . ' Twas not then , as now , with us ...
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... pass away without effect , it would be absurd to expect from languor what enthusi- asm has not obtained . If radical reform is not , at such a moment , procured , all partial changes are evaded or de feated in the tranquillity that ...
... pass away without effect , it would be absurd to expect from languor what enthusi- asm has not obtained . If radical reform is not , at such a moment , procured , all partial changes are evaded or de feated in the tranquillity that ...
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