The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... natural disease , for nature abhors a vacuum ; yet fools , fops , and fanatics are very subject to it , and it sometimes attacks old women of both sexes . " I wish to consult you upon a little . project I have formed , " said a noodle ...
... natural disease , for nature abhors a vacuum ; yet fools , fops , and fanatics are very subject to it , and it sometimes attacks old women of both sexes . " I wish to consult you upon a little . project I have formed , " said a noodle ...
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... natural , for Hope is before us , and it seems possible to anticipate that which we must soon reach ; but the second is a weakness , not less strange than general , for we cannot expect to recover that from which we are per- petually ...
... natural , for Hope is before us , and it seems possible to anticipate that which we must soon reach ; but the second is a weakness , not less strange than general , for we cannot expect to recover that from which we are per- petually ...
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... nature of madness , not only obscures the reason , but often paralyzes , for the moment , the bodily energies ; a paroxysm which fortunately serves as a protection both to ourselves and others . This seasonable arrest of our functions ...
... nature of madness , not only obscures the reason , but often paralyzes , for the moment , the bodily energies ; a paroxysm which fortunately serves as a protection both to ourselves and others . This seasonable arrest of our functions ...
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... nature up to Nature's God . " But how can an angler be pious ! How can a tor- mentor of the creature be a lover of the Creator ? Away with such cant ! Old Izaak must either have been a demure hypocrite , or a blockhead , unaware of the ...
... nature up to Nature's God . " But how can an angler be pious ! How can a tor- mentor of the creature be a lover of the Creator ? Away with such cant ! Old Izaak must either have been a demure hypocrite , or a blockhead , unaware of the ...
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... nature , as well as from his sovereign , may be dubbed , “ inter doctos nobilissimus , —inter nobiles doc- tissimus , —inter utrosque optimus . ” ARITHMETIC - The science of figures cuts but a poor figure in its origin , the term ...
... nature , as well as from his sovereign , may be dubbed , “ inter doctos nobilissimus , —inter nobiles doc- tissimus , —inter utrosque optimus . ” ARITHMETIC - The science of figures cuts but a poor figure in its origin , the term ...
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