World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... bodies ; even if these bodies , which supposition I totally disclaim , could be supposed disaffected to the cause of liberty . Lord Chatham . AGRICULTURE , THE EARLIEST PURSUIT . - The first three men in the world , were a gardener , a ...
... bodies ; even if these bodies , which supposition I totally disclaim , could be supposed disaffected to the cause of liberty . Lord Chatham . AGRICULTURE , THE EARLIEST PURSUIT . - The first three men in the world , were a gardener , a ...
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... body , and coherence of his parts , being so strange and paradoxal , that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one disease , lest she should be ...
... body , and coherence of his parts , being so strange and paradoxal , that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one disease , lest she should be ...
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... neither " aliment " nor " medicine : " they are " poison . " Both intoxicate — one the mind , the other thy body ; the thirst for each increases by being fed , and is never satisfied ; both ruin - one the THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 29.
... neither " aliment " nor " medicine : " they are " poison . " Both intoxicate — one the mind , the other thy body ; the thirst for each increases by being fed , and is never satisfied ; both ruin - one the THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 29.
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... body . BOOKS , EVIL . - A wicked book is the worse that it cannot repent . BOOKS , GOOD . — A good book , in the language of the book- sellers , is a saleable one ; in that of the curious , a scarce one ; in that of men of sense , a ...
... body . BOOKS , EVIL . - A wicked book is the worse that it cannot repent . BOOKS , GOOD . — A good book , in the language of the book- sellers , is a saleable one ; in that of the curious , a scarce one ; in that of men of sense , a ...
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... body , kneeling , prostration , pulling off the upper part of our dress , or taking away the lower , is a mat- ter of custom . - Sir J. Reynolds . CIVILITY OF THE PROUD . - The insolent civility of a proud man is , if possible , more ...
... body , kneeling , prostration , pulling off the upper part of our dress , or taking away the lower , is a mat- ter of custom . - Sir J. Reynolds . CIVILITY OF THE PROUD . - The insolent civility of a proud man is , if possible , more ...
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