The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... virtues . Righteousness is worth nothing without the one , nor authorship without the other . There is an event recorded in the Bible , which men who write books should keep constantly in their remembrance . It is there set forth , that ...
... virtues . Righteousness is worth nothing without the one , nor authorship without the other . There is an event recorded in the Bible , which men who write books should keep constantly in their remembrance . It is there set forth , that ...
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... virtue , substituted by those great professors of both , who are generally the least performers of either , cant may be desig- nated the characteristic of modern England . Simulation and dissimulation are its constituent elements - the ...
... virtue , substituted by those great professors of both , who are generally the least performers of either , cant may be desig- nated the characteristic of modern England . Simulation and dissimulation are its constituent elements - the ...
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... virtues , and the graces , Was forced to form three female faces . But ( so improved his art divine ) In one fair female now they shine . Aloud I hear the reader cry , " Heavens ( to the poet ) ! what a lie ! ' Now , as I hate the name ...
... virtues , and the graces , Was forced to form three female faces . But ( so improved his art divine ) In one fair female now they shine . Aloud I hear the reader cry , " Heavens ( to the poet ) ! what a lie ! ' Now , as I hate the name ...
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... virtue , with us it is a cowardly crime . The Spartans taught their children to steal ; we whip and imprison ours for the same act . No man's con- science stings him for killing a single adversary in a duel , or scores in war , because ...
... virtue , with us it is a cowardly crime . The Spartans taught their children to steal ; we whip and imprison ours for the same act . No man's con- science stings him for killing a single adversary in a duel , or scores in war , because ...
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... virtue , misery and vice . There is a Greek epigram to the effect that it would be a good thing if the headache came before the drinking bowl , in- stead of after it . Suppose it were so ordered , that the twinges of conscience should ...
... virtue , misery and vice . There is a Greek epigram to the effect that it would be a good thing if the headache came before the drinking bowl , in- stead of after it . Suppose it were so ordered , that the twinges of conscience should ...
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Page 32 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 247 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
Page 79 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 131 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 131 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Page 102 - The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 34 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 247 - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
Page 160 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 259 - Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? This he said, not that he cared for the poor ; but because he was a thief, aud had the bag, and bare what was put therein.