World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... keep a jubilee . Hence it becomes a matter of no small moment that the young especially , should have intelligent and faithful guides in their selection of books ; and those who have undertaken this office , and performed it success ...
... keep a jubilee . Hence it becomes a matter of no small moment that the young especially , should have intelligent and faithful guides in their selection of books ; and those who have undertaken this office , and performed it success ...
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... keeps one continually impressed with the idea- " How prolific is human thought ! " You fasten your eye upon a sentence , and it strikes you , at once , as bearing the stamp of undefined greatness . As you hold it to your mind , it takes ...
... keeps one continually impressed with the idea- " How prolific is human thought ! " You fasten your eye upon a sentence , and it strikes you , at once , as bearing the stamp of undefined greatness . As you hold it to your mind , it takes ...
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... keep his friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART ...
... keep his friendship in constant repair . - Dr . Johnson . ACQUISITION .-- An unjust acquisition is like a barbed ar- row , which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish , or else will be your destruction . - Taylor . ACTING A PART ...
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... keep it in good health , is short - lived , and apt to have ague fits . - Erasmus . BEAUTIES OF RHETORIC . - Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleasing to those who come ...
... keep it in good health , is short - lived , and apt to have ague fits . - Erasmus . BEAUTIES OF RHETORIC . - Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleasing to those who come ...
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... keep it any longer . - Bishop Hall . BENEVOLENCE , THE TRUE SPIRIT OF . When Fenelon's library was on fire , " God be praised , " said he , " that it is not the dwelling of a poor man . ' BEST THINGS.- -A firm faith is the best divinity ...
... keep it any longer . - Bishop Hall . BENEVOLENCE , THE TRUE SPIRIT OF . When Fenelon's library was on fire , " God be praised , " said he , " that it is not the dwelling of a poor man . ' BEST THINGS.- -A firm faith is the best divinity ...
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