Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side vi
... it ; for he that writes in a bad style is sure to retort in a worse . I have availed myself of examples both ancient and * Labour is itself a pleasure . - PUB . $ modern , wherever they appeared likely to illustrate , vi PREFACE .
... it ; for he that writes in a bad style is sure to retort in a worse . I have availed myself of examples both ancient and * Labour is itself a pleasure . - PUB . $ modern , wherever they appeared likely to illustrate , vi PREFACE .
Side 48
... ancient or modern . Even his ablest generals were often overwhelmed with astonishment at the result of his simultaneities . Kleber designated him , as a chief who had two faults , that of advancing , without considering how he should ...
... ancient or modern . Even his ablest generals were often overwhelmed with astonishment at the result of his simultaneities . Kleber designated him , as a chief who had two faults , that of advancing , without considering how he should ...
Side 50
... sity , that led the ancients to say , that the gods sold us every thing , but gave us nothing . Water , how- ever , which is one of the great necessaries of life , may , in general , be gratuitously procured ; but 50 LACON .
... sity , that led the ancients to say , that the gods sold us every thing , but gave us nothing . Water , how- ever , which is one of the great necessaries of life , may , in general , be gratuitously procured ; but 50 LACON .
Side 115
... ancient times , so grovelling a passion as the lust of a Tarquin , could give freedom to Rome ; that freedom , to whose shrine a Cesar was afterwards sacrificed in vain , as a victim , and a Cato as a martyr ; that free- dom , which ...
... ancient times , so grovelling a passion as the lust of a Tarquin , could give freedom to Rome ; that freedom , to whose shrine a Cesar was afterwards sacrificed in vain , as a victim , and a Cato as a martyr ; that free- dom , which ...
Side 120
... ancients , he was more than repaid by the pow- ers of his invention , which made borrowing unne- cessary . In all the ebbings and the flowings of his genius , in his storms , no less than in his calms , he is as completely separated ...
... ancients , he was more than repaid by the pow- ers of his invention , which made borrowing unne- cessary . In all the ebbings and the flowings of his genius , in his storms , no less than in his calms , he is as completely separated ...
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