The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best AuthorsM. W.. Dodd, 1853 - 432 pages |
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Page 30
... 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 useful and ...
... 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 useful and ...
Page 33
... evil tongues of others , but a good life enables us to despise them . " CANT . When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason , when his imagination is at cuffs with his senses , and com- mon understanding , as well as common sense , is ...
... evil tongues of others , but a good life enables us to despise them . " CANT . When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason , when his imagination is at cuffs with his senses , and com- mon understanding , as well as common sense , is ...
Page 46
... evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted , because mistaken conscience . - T . Ed- wards . CONSCIENCE AND SIN.- -Our conscience is a fire within us , and our sins as the fuel ; instead of warming it ...
... evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted , because mistaken conscience . - T . Ed- wards . CONSCIENCE AND SIN.- -Our conscience is a fire within us , and our sins as the fuel ; instead of warming it ...
Page 59
... evil omens , or haunt- ed places , and of ghastly spectres . - Percival . CROSS , THE . - The cross of Christ , on which he was ex- tended , points in the length of it , to heaven and earth , recon- ciling them together , and in the ...
... evil omens , or haunt- ed places , and of ghastly spectres . - Percival . CROSS , THE . - The cross of Christ , on which he was ex- tended , points in the length of it , to heaven and earth , recon- ciling them together , and in the ...
Page 67
... evil reports , fre- quently invent them ; and it is no breach of charity to sup- pose this to be always the case ; because no man who spreads detraction , would have scrupled to produce it ; as he who should diffuse poison in a brook ...
... evil reports , fre- quently invent them ; and it is no breach of charity to sup- pose this to be always the case ; because no man who spreads detraction , would have scrupled to produce it ; as he who should diffuse poison in a brook ...
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