The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volumen1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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... pass a few hours in rational conversation . From everything in the nature of a club , as the reader will perceive , on a reference to that word in the present work , my friend recoiled with an insurmount- able aversion , only consenting ...
... pass a few hours in rational conversation . From everything in the nature of a club , as the reader will perceive , on a reference to that word in the present work , my friend recoiled with an insurmount- able aversion , only consenting ...
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... passing topics as might be spontaneously suggested , and which generally assumed a greater latitude , and more playful character , from the previous limitation and partial re- straint upon the general volubility . In the presence of the ...
... passing topics as might be spontaneously suggested , and which generally assumed a greater latitude , and more playful character , from the previous limitation and partial re- straint upon the general volubility . In the presence of the ...
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... pass ; such , for instance , as the abridgment of the statutes in twenty volumes , folio . To make a good abridgment , requires as much time and talent as to write an original work ; a fact of which the reader will find abundant proof ...
... pass ; such , for instance , as the abridgment of the statutes in twenty volumes , folio . To make a good abridgment , requires as much time and talent as to write an original work ; a fact of which the reader will find abundant proof ...
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... passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to make the last plum than the first thousand . So far from sup- posing an ...
... passing day advances the accomplish- ment , and which holds out to us the pleasure of success , with hardly a possibility of failure , for it is much more easy to make the last plum than the first thousand . So far from sup- posing an ...
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... concurrence of circumstances , has given birth to the English word check , and even a name to the Exchequer of Great Britain . In passing through Eu- rope , the oriental forms and names have suffered material 86 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... concurrence of circumstances , has given birth to the English word check , and even a name to the Exchequer of Great Britain . In passing through Eu- rope , the oriental forms and names have suffered material 86 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
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