World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... civil pageantry , is as vain and little as the things are which we court . - Sir P. Sidney . AMUSEMENT.It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society THE WORLDS LACONICS . 19.
... civil pageantry , is as vain and little as the things are which we court . - Sir P. Sidney . AMUSEMENT.It is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society THE WORLDS LACONICS . 19.
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Tryon Edwards. amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society , who think we can bear to be always employed either in duties or meditations without any relaxation . ANATOMY . - Whoever considers the study of anatomy , I believe ...
Tryon Edwards. amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society , who think we can bear to be always employed either in duties or meditations without any relaxation . ANATOMY . - Whoever considers the study of anatomy , I believe ...
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... society of mankind.— M. de Scudery . COMPLAISANCE . - Complaisance , though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues , is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of . It was Plato's advice ...
... society of mankind.— M. de Scudery . COMPLAISANCE . - Complaisance , though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues , is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of . It was Plato's advice ...
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... door , and introduces us to better ourselves by the examples of others , if there be anything in the society worth taking uotice of - Montaigne . COURTIERS . - An old courtier , with veracity , THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 55.
... door , and introduces us to better ourselves by the examples of others , if there be anything in the society worth taking uotice of - Montaigne . COURTIERS . - An old courtier , with veracity , THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 55.
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... SOCIETY . - Nothing so cements and holds together in union all the parts of a society , as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up , unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe 3 * THE WORLD'S ...
... SOCIETY . - Nothing so cements and holds together in union all the parts of a society , as faith or credit ; which can never be kept up , unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe 3 * THE WORLD'S ...
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