The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volumen1Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 páginas |
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... exclaimed , rubbing his hands , " Well , come what may , I have two hundred verbs well con- jugated in my desk ! " ABLUTION- -a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxly observed in ...
... exclaimed , rubbing his hands , " Well , come what may , I have two hundred verbs well con- jugated in my desk ! " ABLUTION- -a duty somewhat too strictly inculcated in the Mahometan ritual , and sometimes too laxly observed in ...
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... exclaimed the Sul- taness " you were born to be lucky , for you have not only de- rived life from your mother's stomach , but from your bro- ther's ! " ABSOLUTION , SELF - generously pronouncing our own pardon . Such is the power in the ...
... exclaimed the Sul- taness " you were born to be lucky , for you have not only de- rived life from your mother's stomach , but from your bro- ther's ! " ABSOLUTION , SELF - generously pronouncing our own pardon . Such is the power in the ...
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... exclaimed an auditor " that is a great distance : it must have been accom- plished when the days were longest . " - " To be sure it was ; I admit that , " cried the ingenious Hibernian . 66 ADVICE - Almost the only commodity which the ...
... exclaimed an auditor " that is a great distance : it must have been accom- plished when the days were longest . " - " To be sure it was ; I admit that , " cried the ingenious Hibernian . 66 ADVICE - Almost the only commodity which the ...
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... exclaimed the latter , when his boy threatened to enlist in the army- “ would you be laving your poor ould father that dotes upon ye ? You , the best and the most dutiful of all my children , and the only one that never struck me when I ...
... exclaimed the latter , when his boy threatened to enlist in the army- “ would you be laving your poor ould father that dotes upon ye ? You , the best and the most dutiful of all my children , and the only one that never struck me when I ...
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... exclaim with the celebrated artist , " Ed io anche sono Pittore . ” Although the word be derived from the two first letters of the Greek , every ALPHABET now in use may be traced with historical certainty to one original - the Phenician ...
... exclaim with the celebrated artist , " Ed io anche sono Pittore . ” Although the word be derived from the two first letters of the Greek , every ALPHABET now in use may be traced with historical certainty to one original - the Phenician ...
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Página 48 - 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.
Página 170 - 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.
Página 158 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Página 50 - 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.
Página 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 148 - Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.
Página 83 - The Church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving: not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it, and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without.
Página 135 - 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.
Página 107 - The old blind schoolmaster, John Milton, hath published a tedious poem on the Fall of Man ; — if its length be not considered as merit, it has no other.
Página 135 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.