The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
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... spirit to Jove , who bestowed it . " AGE — old — an infirmity which nobody knows . Nothing can exceed our early impatience to escape from youth to man- hood , and appear older than we are , except our subsequent anxiety to obtain the ...
... spirit to Jove , who bestowed it . " AGE — old — an infirmity which nobody knows . Nothing can exceed our early impatience to escape from youth to man- hood , and appear older than we are , except our subsequent anxiety to obtain the ...
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... spirit many tracts have been published , " Which , in the semblance of devotion , Allure their victim to offence , And then administer a potion , To soothe and lull his conscience ; Teaching him , that to break all ties , May be a ...
... spirit many tracts have been published , " Which , in the semblance of devotion , Allure their victim to offence , And then administer a potion , To soothe and lull his conscience ; Teaching him , that to break all ties , May be a ...
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... spirits , but that a peculiar devil swam with every turbot , grazed with every ox , soared with every lark , dived with every duck , and was roasted with every chicken . Sydney Smith , from whom I quote the above , says : “ I should be ...
... spirits , but that a peculiar devil swam with every turbot , grazed with every ox , soared with every lark , dived with every duck , and was roasted with every chicken . Sydney Smith , from whom I quote the above , says : “ I should be ...
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... spirit , of appearances for realities , of words for things . CARE ― The tax paid by the higher classes for their privi- leges and possessions . Often amounting to the full value of the property upon which it is levied , care may be ...
... spirit , of appearances for realities , of words for things . CARE ― The tax paid by the higher classes for their privi- leges and possessions . Often amounting to the full value of the property upon which it is levied , care may be ...
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... spirit of chivalry is a generous impatience of wrong , an active sympathy with the oppressed , an unquenchable fury against the oppressor , a general protec- tion of the weak against the guilty and the powerful , with , ( in the ...
... spirit of chivalry is a generous impatience of wrong , an active sympathy with the oppressed , an unquenchable fury against the oppressor , a general protec- tion of the weak against the guilty and the powerful , with , ( in the ...
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