The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... honors on the base , Do but degrade their wearers more , As sweeps , whom May - day trappings grace , Show ten times blacker than before . " ANCIENTS - Dead bones used for the purpose of knock- ing down live flesh . Every puny Samson ...
... honors on the base , Do but degrade their wearers more , As sweeps , whom May - day trappings grace , Show ten times blacker than before . " ANCIENTS - Dead bones used for the purpose of knock- ing down live flesh . Every puny Samson ...
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... honor , we have others who are an honor to their titles . Happy he , who , deriving his patent from nature , as well as from his sovereign , may be dubbed , “ inter doctos nobilissimus , —inter nobiles doc- tissimus , —inter utrosque ...
... honor , we have others who are an honor to their titles . Happy he , who , deriving his patent from nature , as well as from his sovereign , may be dubbed , “ inter doctos nobilissimus , —inter nobiles doc- tissimus , —inter utrosque ...
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... honor he had received , made some good - humored allusions to blotters of foolscap , whose works were appropriately bound in calf ; and concluded by proposing in return , the health of Mr. Campbell , and the worshipful company of Paper ...
... honor he had received , made some good - humored allusions to blotters of foolscap , whose works were appropriately bound in calf ; and concluded by proposing in return , the health of Mr. Campbell , and the worshipful company of Paper ...
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... honor and glory of a God of mercy . The horrors of this diabolical spectacle , which was invariably beheld by both sexes and all ages with transports of triumph and delight , should eternally be borne in mind , that we may see to what ...
... honor and glory of a God of mercy . The horrors of this diabolical spectacle , which was invariably beheld by both sexes and all ages with transports of triumph and delight , should eternally be borne in mind , that we may see to what ...
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... honor of agreeing with Vespasian , that— “ Auri bonus est odor ex re qualibet , " and with Dr. Johnson , who maintained that a man is seldom more beneficially employed , either for himself or others , than when he is making money ...
... honor of agreeing with Vespasian , that— “ Auri bonus est odor ex re qualibet , " and with Dr. Johnson , who maintained that a man is seldom more beneficially employed , either for himself or others , than when he is making money ...
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