Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few WordsPorter & Coates, 1871 - 504 sider |
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Side vi
... common as water , and as free as air . But as it has been wisely ordained that light should have no colour , water no taste , and air no odour , so knowledge also should be equally equally pure , and without admixture . If it comes to ...
... common as water , and as free as air . But as it has been wisely ordained that light should have no colour , water no taste , and air no odour , so knowledge also should be equally equally pure , and without admixture . If it comes to ...
Side vii
... common enough when separated , but as costly in value , as irresistible in power , when combined - truth and novelty . Their union is like that of steam and of fire , which nothing can overcome . Truth and novelty , when united , must ...
... common enough when separated , but as costly in value , as irresistible in power , when combined - truth and novelty . Their union is like that of steam and of fire , which nothing can overcome . Truth and novelty , when united , must ...
Side xvi
... common principle of action . The attain- ment of apparent good ; those two simple truisms contain the whole of my philosophy , and as they have nct been worn out in the performance of one under- taking , I trust they will not fail me in ...
... common principle of action . The attain- ment of apparent good ; those two simple truisms contain the whole of my philosophy , and as they have nct been worn out in the performance of one under- taking , I trust they will not fail me in ...
Side 13
... them in the coolest place you have , provided it be perfectly dry - for a cigar that is once wet is useless and irreclaimable . Thirdly , keep them B always in air - tight canisters for the common wood C. C. COLTON . 13.
... them in the coolest place you have , provided it be perfectly dry - for a cigar that is once wet is useless and irreclaimable . Thirdly , keep them B always in air - tight canisters for the common wood C. C. COLTON . 13.
Side 14
... common wood boxes play the d - l . " Between Caleb and Morgan we shall not pretend to decide ; but the Irish proverbialist was undoubt- edly wrong once , for maxim sixty - fourth declares : " No cigar - smoker ever committed suicide ...
... common wood boxes play the d - l . " Between Caleb and Morgan we shall not pretend to decide ; but the Irish proverbialist was undoubt- edly wrong once , for maxim sixty - fourth declares : " No cigar - smoker ever committed suicide ...
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