Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, المجلد 3T. Boys, 1826 - 360 من الصفحات |
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... fortune passes for a fault , and is justified but by a very few persons . - St . Evremond . LXXXVIII . A knight of the long robe is more honourable than a knight made in the field ; for furs are dearer than spurs . -Sir T. Overbury ...
... fortune passes for a fault , and is justified but by a very few persons . - St . Evremond . LXXXVIII . A knight of the long robe is more honourable than a knight made in the field ; for furs are dearer than spurs . -Sir T. Overbury ...
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... fortune , may , with more reason , claim the privilege to forsake her ; and , at a distance from her , to seek repose that may balance the advantages she has denied them . What injury do we do her to pay her in the same coin , and ...
... fortune , may , with more reason , claim the privilege to forsake her ; and , at a distance from her , to seek repose that may balance the advantages she has denied them . What injury do we do her to pay her in the same coin , and ...
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... fortune , to lift men up or cast them down . - Sir T. More . CLV . Mr. Sage . I have never read of a duel among the Romans , and yet their nobility used more liberty with their tongues than one may do now without being chal- lenged ...
... fortune , to lift men up or cast them down . - Sir T. More . CLV . Mr. Sage . I have never read of a duel among the Romans , and yet their nobility used more liberty with their tongues than one may do now without being chal- lenged ...
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... fortunes , to countenance virtue , and to raise that esteem due to plain sense and common honesty.- Sir W. Temple . CLXXVII . Scandal is a never failing vehicle for dullness 42 LACONICS . For quiet, friend! the soldier fights, ...
... fortunes , to countenance virtue , and to raise that esteem due to plain sense and common honesty.- Sir W. Temple . CLXXVII . Scandal is a never failing vehicle for dullness 42 LACONICS . For quiet, friend! the soldier fights, ...
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... fortune of Mecænas , and of such other great men , who had taste enough , or art enough , to encourage genius and learning . The dexterity of their conduct in this respect has even hid or disguised the folly or deformity of their ...
... fortune of Mecænas , and of such other great men , who had taste enough , or art enough , to encourage genius and learning . The dexterity of their conduct in this respect has even hid or disguised the folly or deformity of their ...
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