The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... Bulls " is written much with the same mind , and in the same manner , as a schoolboy takes a walk : he moves on the straight road for ten yards , with surprising perseverance ; then sets out after a butterfly , looks for a bird's nest ...
... Bulls " is written much with the same mind , and in the same manner , as a schoolboy takes a walk : he moves on the straight road for ten yards , with surprising perseverance ; then sets out after a butterfly , looks for a bird's nest ...
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... BULLS . A bull is exactly the counterpart of a witticism : for as wit discovers real relations that are not ap- parent , bulls admit apparent relations that are not real . The pleasure arising from bulls , proceeds from our surprise at ...
... BULLS . A bull is exactly the counterpart of a witticism : for as wit discovers real relations that are not ap- parent , bulls admit apparent relations that are not real . The pleasure arising from bulls , proceeds from our surprise at ...
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... bulls so ex- tremely fallacious , that any man may imagine him- self to have been betrayed into them ; but these are rare : and , in general , it is a poor contemptible spe- cies of amusement ; a delight in which evinces a very bad ...
... bulls so ex- tremely fallacious , that any man may imagine him- self to have been betrayed into them ; but these are rare : and , in general , it is a poor contemptible spe- cies of amusement ; a delight in which evinces a very bad ...
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... bull - dog , when you can get a frog or a rabbit ? " UNANIMITY . " We must be unanimous , " said 9 AFTER DINNER TABLE - TALK . 97 An Interruption Coleridge Secret History of Books Thackeray Religious Persecution Sydney Smith.
... bull - dog , when you can get a frog or a rabbit ? " UNANIMITY . " We must be unanimous , " said 9 AFTER DINNER TABLE - TALK . 97 An Interruption Coleridge Secret History of Books Thackeray Religious Persecution Sydney Smith.
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... Bull ; as much so as Magna Charta , with which , perchance , it may not be altogether unconnected . At least , it cer- tainly is an apt symbol of the national character , both in some of its nobler and of its harsher features . In it ...
... Bull ; as much so as Magna Charta , with which , perchance , it may not be altogether unconnected . At least , it cer- tainly is an apt symbol of the national character , both in some of its nobler and of its harsher features . In it ...
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