The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... persons that the present work has been prepared : -upon the principle of extracting the leading thought from each volume , and placing it so before the mind that after perusal it may in- vite and attract , and even compel the powers of ...
... persons that the present work has been prepared : -upon the principle of extracting the leading thought from each volume , and placing it so before the mind that after perusal it may in- vite and attract , and even compel the powers of ...
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... persons who attempt to convince or reconcile others to their party , when they make the difference appear as wide as possible ; this is shocking to any person who is to be convinced - he will choose rather to keep and maintain his own ...
... persons who attempt to convince or reconcile others to their party , when they make the difference appear as wide as possible ; this is shocking to any person who is to be convinced - he will choose rather to keep and maintain his own ...
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... person , who has made himself eminent either by his virtues or his vices - shows us how he came first to take a ' right or a wrong turn - the prospects which invited him to aspire to higher degrees of glory , or the delusions which ...
... person , who has made himself eminent either by his virtues or his vices - shows us how he came first to take a ' right or a wrong turn - the prospects which invited him to aspire to higher degrees of glory , or the delusions which ...
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... persons change their tempers , as the seat of the disease alters . And though men see daily instances of this , they do not reflect , but praise or blame the sick capriciously . Hence a miserable melan- cholic shall labour under a ...
... persons change their tempers , as the seat of the disease alters . And though men see daily instances of this , they do not reflect , but praise or blame the sick capriciously . Hence a miserable melan- cholic shall labour under a ...
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... person as peevish , positive , and unfit for society ? his disorder may no more suffer him to be merry , than the gout will suffer another to dance . The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward be courageous , or ...
... person as peevish , positive , and unfit for society ? his disorder may no more suffer him to be merry , than the gout will suffer another to dance . The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward be courageous , or ...
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