The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Tom 2Whittaker & Company, 1836 - 279 |
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... writing on the literature of the Trouveres , says , " The Provençal was called the Langue d'Oc , and the Wallon the Langue d'Oil , or d'Oui , from the affirma- tive word of each language , as the Italian was then called the Langue de Si ...
... writing on the literature of the Trouveres , says , " The Provençal was called the Langue d'Oc , and the Wallon the Langue d'Oil , or d'Oui , from the affirma- tive word of each language , as the Italian was then called the Langue de Si ...
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... writing than is permitted by the laws of modern England . Adverting to the reigns of Trajan and Aurelius , Tacitus says " Rara temporum felicitate , ubi sentire quæ velis , et quæ sentias dicere licet . " — " By the rare happiness of ...
... writing than is permitted by the laws of modern England . Adverting to the reigns of Trajan and Aurelius , Tacitus says " Rara temporum felicitate , ubi sentire quæ velis , et quæ sentias dicere licet . " — " By the rare happiness of ...
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... writer , " that we can always remember the smallest thing that has happened to ourselves , and yet not recollect how often we have repeated it to the same person . " It is a benevolent provision of nature , that in 24 THE TIN TRUMPET ; Or ,
... writer , " that we can always remember the smallest thing that has happened to ourselves , and yet not recollect how often we have repeated it to the same person . " It is a benevolent provision of nature , that in 24 THE TIN TRUMPET ; Or ,
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... writers of the same class , cannot succeed in giving any man , of a generous and clear intellect , an unfavourable opinion of human nature . Like the workers of tapestry , who always behold the wrong side , they themselves may see ...
... writers of the same class , cannot succeed in giving any man , of a generous and clear intellect , an unfavourable opinion of human nature . Like the workers of tapestry , who always behold the wrong side , they themselves may see ...
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... writers in albums and annuals , and other scribblers ; but , like Mungo in the farce , each of them replies , " Massa , massa ! —the more you call , the more me wont come . " One of our tourists , at Paris , observing that there were ...
... writers in albums and annuals , and other scribblers ; but , like Mungo in the farce , each of them replies , " Massa , massa ! —the more you call , the more me wont come . " One of our tourists , at Paris , observing that there were ...
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