The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, المجلد 1Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1905 |
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... lady who received from bounteous nature more really useful science than half a dozen such pre- tenders to philosophy as you have been able to extract from all your books . When she honors you with a visit , it is on foot . She walks all ...
... lady who received from bounteous nature more really useful science than half a dozen such pre- tenders to philosophy as you have been able to extract from all your books . When she honors you with a visit , it is on foot . She walks all ...
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... lady with her lovely children and friends , eager to walk with you and entertain you with their agreeable conversation ; and what has been your choice ? Why , to sit on the terrace , satisfy yourself with the fine prospect , and passing ...
... lady with her lovely children and friends , eager to walk with you and entertain you with their agreeable conversation ; and what has been your choice ? Why , to sit on the terrace , satisfy yourself with the fine prospect , and passing ...
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... lady ephemera , and now and then a kind smile and a tune from the ever amiable Brillante . B. FRANKLIN . Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You are Unacquainted With PARIS , April 2 , 1777 . This may Sir : The bearer of ...
... lady ephemera , and now and then a kind smile and a tune from the ever amiable Brillante . B. FRANKLIN . Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You are Unacquainted With PARIS , April 2 , 1777 . This may Sir : The bearer of ...
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... lady's toilette to see how it is laid on , but I fancy I can tell you how it is or may be done . Cut a hole of three ... ladies to the princesses of the blood ; but it stops there , the queen not using it , having in the serenity ...
... lady's toilette to see how it is laid on , but I fancy I can tell you how it is or may be done . Cut a hole of three ... ladies to the princesses of the blood ; but it stops there , the queen not using it , having in the serenity ...
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... lady . The custom - house officers at Port St. Denis , as we entered Paris , were about to seize two dozen of excellent Bordeaux wine given us at Bou- logne , and which we brought with us ; but as soon as they found we were strangers ...
... lady . The custom - house officers at Port St. Denis , as we entered Paris , were about to seize two dozen of excellent Bordeaux wine given us at Bou- logne , and which we brought with us ; but as soon as they found we were strangers ...
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الصفحة 2 - If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
الصفحة 8 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
الصفحة 233 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
الصفحة xxvi - Hope will die fasting. There are no Gains without Pains; then Help, Hands, for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed.
الصفحة 86 - ... fretting about it, like illtempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart,— sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
الصفحة 78 - ... population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream, where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
الصفحة 42 - Therefore prepare for bloody war ; These kegs must all be routed, Or surely we despised shall be, And British courage doubted." The royal band now ready stand, All ranged in dread array, sir, With stomach stout to see it out, And make a bloody day, sir. The cannons roar from shore to shore, The small arms make a rattle ; Since wars began, I'm sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle. The rebel dales, the rebel vales, With rebel trees surrounded, The distant wood, the hills and floods, With rebel...
الصفحة 10 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too match for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
الصفحة xxv - ... as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
الصفحة 29 - I turned my head from them to an old grey-headed one who was single on another leaf, and talking to himself. Being amused with his soliloquy, I put it down in writing, in hopes it will likewise amuse her to whom I am so much indebted for the most pleasing of all amusements, her delicious company and heavenly harmony.