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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... we have none left for ourselves . We are only unclean in our hearts and lives . As occasional squalor , is the worst evil of poverty and " labour , so should constant cleanliness be the greatest 14 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... we have none left for ourselves . We are only unclean in our hearts and lives . As occasional squalor , is the worst evil of poverty and " labour , so should constant cleanliness be the greatest 14 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
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... Lives of the Fathers ? " I know not whether the religious public would give it encouragement , but I am confident , that in this land of primogeniture and en- tailed estates , there is not an heir in the three kingdoms who would not ...
... Lives of the Fathers ? " I know not whether the religious public would give it encouragement , but I am confident , that in this land of primogeniture and en- tailed estates , there is not an heir in the three kingdoms who would not ...
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... live just and honest lives , be kind and beneficent to all our fellow - creatures , and pity such as differ from us in their opinions about the autho- rity , integrity , and meaning of the Alcoran . " - What a con- trast does the ...
... live just and honest lives , be kind and beneficent to all our fellow - creatures , and pity such as differ from us in their opinions about the autho- rity , integrity , and meaning of the Alcoran . " - What a con- trast does the ...
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... , " will for ever live in the memory of mankind ; since America , as well as Eu- rope , has received letters from the one and religion from the other . " One of the earlier French princes being too indolent or 30 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
... , " will for ever live in the memory of mankind ; since America , as well as Eu- rope , has received letters from the one and religion from the other . " One of the earlier French princes being too indolent or 30 THE TIN TRUMPET ; OR.
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... live flesh . Every puny Sampson thinks he may wield his ass's jaw - bone in assaulting his contemporaries , by comparing them with their predecessors . If architects at- tempt anything original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and ...
... live flesh . Every puny Sampson thinks he may wield his ass's jaw - bone in assaulting his contemporaries , by comparing them with their predecessors . If architects at- tempt anything original , they are ridiculed for their pains , and ...
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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.