The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... better designate himself by the two last letters of the alphabet . ABLUTION- -a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxly observed in Christian practice . As a man may have a dirty body ...
... better designate himself by the two last letters of the alphabet . ABLUTION- -a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxly observed in Christian practice . As a man may have a dirty body ...
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... better than the interest of his neighbors . This may help to explain Rochefoucauld's dictum , that there is something , even in the misfortunes of our best friends , which is not altogether displeasing to us . To decline all advice ...
... better than the interest of his neighbors . This may help to explain Rochefoucauld's dictum , that there is something , even in the misfortunes of our best friends , which is not altogether displeasing to us . To decline all advice ...
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... Better to win the proper way ; Indulge in every sin at times , To prove that grace is never lacking : And purify themselves by crimes , As dirty shoes are cleaned by blacking . " ANTIQUARY - Too often a collector of valuables that are ...
... Better to win the proper way ; Indulge in every sin at times , To prove that grace is never lacking : And purify themselves by crimes , As dirty shoes are cleaned by blacking . " ANTIQUARY - Too often a collector of valuables that are ...
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... better than so many Dutch Vrowes- coarse , flabby , and clownish . To a genuine connoisseur , how- ever , every one of them is , doubtless , a Venus de Medici ; not because she is handsome or well - proportioned , for she is neither ...
... better than so many Dutch Vrowes- coarse , flabby , and clownish . To a genuine connoisseur , how- ever , every one of them is , doubtless , a Venus de Medici ; not because she is handsome or well - proportioned , for she is neither ...
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... better than a wasteful extravagance . Simonides being reproached with parsimony , said he would rather enrich his enemies after his death , than borrow of his friends in his lifetime . There are more excuses for this " old gentlemanly ...
... better than a wasteful extravagance . Simonides being reproached with parsimony , said he would rather enrich his enemies after his death , than borrow of his friends in his lifetime . There are more excuses for this " old gentlemanly ...
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