World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... YOUTH . - When we are young , we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . — Pope . AGE , OLD ...
... YOUTH . - When we are young , we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . — Pope . AGE , OLD ...
Page 67
... youth , or the allurements of vice , it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion , consideration , age , or misfortunes have brought the man to himself . The fire may be covered THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 67.
... youth , or the allurements of vice , it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion , consideration , age , or misfortunes have brought the man to himself . The fire may be covered THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 67.
Page 75
... youth and beauty , wit and sprightliness ; but after seven years of union , not one of them is to be compared to good family manage- ment , which is seen at every meal , and felt every hour in the husband's purse . - Witherspoon ...
... youth and beauty , wit and sprightliness ; but after seven years of union , not one of them is to be compared to good family manage- ment , which is seen at every meal , and felt every hour in the husband's purse . - Witherspoon ...
Page 77
... YOUTH . - Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in , that counts himself a teacher ; but will require sinews almost - equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.— Milton . EDUCATION , PREMATURE . - The education of ...
... YOUTH . - Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in , that counts himself a teacher ; but will require sinews almost - equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.— Milton . EDUCATION , PREMATURE . - The education of ...
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... youth delight to be adorned with . Since then it keeps all sorts of company , and wriggles itself into the liking of the most contrary natures and dis- positions , and yet carries so much poison and venom with it , that it alienates the ...
... youth delight to be adorned with . Since then it keeps all sorts of company , and wriggles itself into the liking of the most contrary natures and dis- positions , and yet carries so much poison and venom with it , that it alienates the ...
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