The Companion: After-dinner Table-talkG. P. Putnam, 1850 - 192 páginas |
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... NEVER FAILED TO DESIRE A TASTE OF THEM ; WHEN HE HAD BY THIS MEANS GOT TOGETHER A QUANTITY MADE UP OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT SORTS , HE SOLD IT AGAIN AT A LOWER RATE TO THE SAME PERFUMER , WHO , FINDING OUT THE TRICK , CALLED IT TABAC DE ...
... NEVER FAILED TO DESIRE A TASTE OF THEM ; WHEN HE HAD BY THIS MEANS GOT TOGETHER A QUANTITY MADE UP OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT SORTS , HE SOLD IT AGAIN AT A LOWER RATE TO THE SAME PERFUMER , WHO , FINDING OUT THE TRICK , CALLED IT TABAC DE ...
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... never looks at things with the naked eye of common- sense , but is always gazing at the world through a Claude Lorraine glass , discovering a thousand appear- ances which are created only by the instrument of inspection , and covering ...
... never looks at things with the naked eye of common- sense , but is always gazing at the world through a Claude Lorraine glass , discovering a thousand appear- ances which are created only by the instrument of inspection , and covering ...
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... never to say a thing which any of the company can reason- ably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there any thing be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together , than to part unsatisfied with each other or ...
... never to say a thing which any of the company can reason- ably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there any thing be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together , than to part unsatisfied with each other or ...
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... never did . " A HABITUAL BORE . Lord Chesterton we have often met with , and suffered a good deal from his lordship : a heavy , pompous , meddling peer , occupying a great share of the conversation - saying things in ten words which ...
... never did . " A HABITUAL BORE . Lord Chesterton we have often met with , and suffered a good deal from his lordship : a heavy , pompous , meddling peer , occupying a great share of the conversation - saying things in ten words which ...
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... never suspect it beforehand ? GENIUS AND COMMON UNDERSTANDING . There is a lower kind of discretion and regularity , which seldom fails of raising men to the highest stations , in the court , the church , and the law . It must be so for ...
... never suspect it beforehand ? GENIUS AND COMMON UNDERSTANDING . There is a lower kind of discretion and regularity , which seldom fails of raising men to the highest stations , in the court , the church , and the law . It must be so for ...
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