Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... gentleman a fiddler who amuses himself with a violin . - Swift . XVI . Pleasure of meat , drink , clothes , & c . , are forbidden those that know not how to use them ; just as nurses cry pah ! when they see a knife in a child's hand ...
... gentleman a fiddler who amuses himself with a violin . - Swift . XVI . Pleasure of meat , drink , clothes , & c . , are forbidden those that know not how to use them ; just as nurses cry pah ! when they see a knife in a child's hand ...
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... gentlemen a wonderful propensity towards it , which is marvellously improved by travelling . soldiers also and seamen are happy in the same figure . The periphrasis or circumlo- cution is the peculiar talent of country farmers ; the pro ...
... gentlemen a wonderful propensity towards it , which is marvellously improved by travelling . soldiers also and seamen are happy in the same figure . The periphrasis or circumlo- cution is the peculiar talent of country farmers ; the pro ...
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... gentleman in his chamber , that gentleman a lord , and that lord a prince ; the groom , the gentleman , and the lord , are as much servants one as the other ; the circumstantial dif- ference of the one's getting only his bread and wages ...
... gentleman in his chamber , that gentleman a lord , and that lord a prince ; the groom , the gentleman , and the lord , are as much servants one as the other ; the circumstantial dif- ference of the one's getting only his bread and wages ...
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... gentleman the other day that is famous for a good carver ( at which acquisition he is out of countenance , imagining it may detract from some of his more essential qualifications ) to help me to something that was near him ; but he ...
... gentleman the other day that is famous for a good carver ( at which acquisition he is out of countenance , imagining it may detract from some of his more essential qualifications ) to help me to something that was near him ; but he ...
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... gentlemen dumb with amazement . - B . Thornton . CCCXLVIII . The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas , would give bread to a whole family during six months . - Hume . CCCXLIX . Swift , in his proposals for a ...
... gentlemen dumb with amazement . - B . Thornton . CCCXLVIII . The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas , would give bread to a whole family during six months . - Hume . CCCXLIX . Swift , in his proposals for a ...
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