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Page 37
And this , though less amiable , is , perhaps , more certain than the charity of
impulse , inasmuch as a principle is better to be depended upon than a feeling .
There is an apparent beneficence which has no connection either with right
principle ...
And this , though less amiable , is , perhaps , more certain than the charity of
impulse , inasmuch as a principle is better to be depended upon than a feeling .
There is an apparent beneficence which has no connection either with right
principle ...
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The Peripatetics allowed them a . sensitive power , but denied them a rational
one . The Platonists allowed them reason and understanding ; though in a
degree less pure and less refined than that of men . Lactantius allows them every
thing ...
The Peripatetics allowed them a . sensitive power , but denied them a rational
one . The Platonists allowed them reason and understanding ; though in a
degree less pure and less refined than that of men . Lactantius allows them every
thing ...
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If it be true that one fool makes many , it is not less clear that many fools , or many
wise men , make one . The noscitur à socio is universally applicable . Like the
chameleon , our mind takes the color of what surrounds it THE TIN TRUMPET .
53.
If it be true that one fool makes many , it is not less clear that many fools , or many
wise men , make one . The noscitur à socio is universally applicable . Like the
chameleon , our mind takes the color of what surrounds it THE TIN TRUMPET .
53.
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... like me , in puffs , The public smokes You and your hoax , And turns your empty
vapor to rebuffs . Ye through the nose Pay for each puff ; when mine the same
way flows , It does not run me into debt ; And thus , the more I fume , the less I fret
...
... like me , in puffs , The public smokes You and your hoax , And turns your empty
vapor to rebuffs . Ye through the nose Pay for each puff ; when mine the same
way flows , It does not run me into debt ; And thus , the more I fume , the less I fret
...
Page 68
Empty minds are the most prone to soar above their proper sphere , like paper
kites , which are kept aloft by their own lightness ; while those that are better
stored are prone to humility , like heavily laden vessels , of which we see the less
the ...
Empty minds are the most prone to soar above their proper sphere , like paper
kites , which are kept aloft by their own lightness ; while those that are better
stored are prone to humility , like heavily laden vessels , of which we see the less
the ...
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Page 32 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 247 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
Page 79 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set — but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 131 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 131 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Page 102 - The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Page 34 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 247 - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
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Page 259 - Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? This he said, not that he cared for the poor ; but because he was a thief, aud had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
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| Title | The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish |
| Author | Horace Smith |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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