Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern InstancesMethuen & Company, 1903 - 163 sider |
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Side xvi
... mean , is an exponent . DESULTORY REFLECTIONS . BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX . INIQUITOUS intercourses contaminate proper habits . One individual may pilfer a quadruped , 66 23 παρακρύψει πολυ το χρησιμον εχων ἐν ἑαυτῳ . xvi.
... mean , is an exponent . DESULTORY REFLECTIONS . BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX . INIQUITOUS intercourses contaminate proper habits . One individual may pilfer a quadruped , 66 23 παρακρύψει πολυ το χρησιμον εχων ἐν ἑαυτῳ . xvi.
Side 22
... lords may flourish or may fade , A breath may make them , as a breath has made ; But A BOLD PEASANTRY , their coun- try's pride , When once destroyed can never be supplied . Advice well remembered by Sir Walter Scott's Duke of Buccleugh ...
... lords may flourish or may fade , A breath may make them , as a breath has made ; But A BOLD PEASANTRY , their coun- try's pride , When once destroyed can never be supplied . Advice well remembered by Sir Walter Scott's Duke of Buccleugh ...
Side 25
... Lord says we must be- come as little children if we would be saved ; we must become in His Church as men , what we were once in the small circle of our youthful homes . The love of private friends is the only preparatory exercise for ...
... Lord says we must be- come as little children if we would be saved ; we must become in His Church as men , what we were once in the small circle of our youthful homes . The love of private friends is the only preparatory exercise for ...
Side 41
... . SNOB AND GENTLEMAN . THE Fraction asked himself , " How will this look at Almack's , and before Lord Mahogany ? " The perfect man asked himself , " How will this look in the Universe , and before the Creator of man 4I.
... . SNOB AND GENTLEMAN . THE Fraction asked himself , " How will this look at Almack's , and before Lord Mahogany ? " The perfect man asked himself , " How will this look in the Universe , and before the Creator of man 4I.
Side 46
... Lord Bolingbroke , and desired he would observe that the clerks in his office used a sort of ivory knife with a blunt edge to divide a sheet of paper , which never failed to cut it even , only requiring a strong hand . Whereas if they ...
... Lord Bolingbroke , and desired he would observe that the clerks in his office used a sort of ivory knife with a blunt edge to divide a sheet of paper , which never failed to cut it even , only requiring a strong hand . Whereas if they ...
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