The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... least of him ! " ADDRESS - Generally a string of fulsome compliments and professions , indiscriminately lavished upon every king or indi- vidual in authority , in order to assure him of the particular , personal , and exclusive ...
... least of him ! " ADDRESS - Generally a string of fulsome compliments and professions , indiscriminately lavished upon every king or indi- vidual in authority , in order to assure him of the particular , personal , and exclusive ...
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... least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to make himself ten years younger than he really was , drily observed- " Then at the time you and I were at school to- gether , you were not born . ” ALCHEMIST ...
... least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to make himself ten years younger than he really was , drily observed- " Then at the time you and I were at school to- gether , you were not born . ” ALCHEMIST ...
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... least a semblance of honesty and justice - who will leave knaves and robbers to the merited inflictions of the law , while he will cheerfully exert his eloquence and skill in redressing the wrongs of the injured . Show me such a Phoenix ...
... least a semblance of honesty and justice - who will leave knaves and robbers to the merited inflictions of the law , while he will cheerfully exert his eloquence and skill in redressing the wrongs of the injured . Show me such a Phoenix ...
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... least ex- pected , if she be not totally lost to all sense of propriety , that she will , without a moment's further delay , -send back the key of the tea - caddy . " Sydney Smith cites a French traveller who was much giv- en to the ...
... least ex- pected , if she be not totally lost to all sense of propriety , that she will , without a moment's further delay , -send back the key of the tea - caddy . " Sydney Smith cites a French traveller who was much giv- en to the ...
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... least seen in those who have the most occasion for it . BODY - That portion of our system which receives the chief attention of Messrs . Somebody , Anybody , and Everybody , while Nobody cares for the soul . - Body and mind are har ...
... least seen in those who have the most occasion for it . BODY - That portion of our system which receives the chief attention of Messrs . Somebody , Anybody , and Everybody , while Nobody cares for the soul . - Body and mind are har ...
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