Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side 234
... knave , than to expend it , like a gentleman . If we exhaust our income in schemes of ambition , we shall purchase disappointment ; if in law , vexation ; if in luxury , disease . What we lend , we shall most probably lose ; what we ...
... knave , than to expend it , like a gentleman . If we exhaust our income in schemes of ambition , we shall purchase disappointment ; if in law , vexation ; if in luxury , disease . What we lend , we shall most probably lose ; what we ...
Side 267
... knave ! Pardon me , sire , ' exclaimed Thurgut , casting a significant glance at Stackelberg ; this is the second time to - day I have mistaken a knave for a king !! Stackelberg , though very prompt at repartee , bit his lips , and was ...
... knave ! Pardon me , sire , ' exclaimed Thurgut , casting a significant glance at Stackelberg ; this is the second time to - day I have mistaken a knave for a king !! Stackelberg , though very prompt at repartee , bit his lips , and was ...
Side 296
... knave , but it chills the honest man , and makes him almost weary of his calling : and all that corruption attracts , it also retains ; for it is easier not to fall , than only to fall once , and not to yield a single inch , than having ...
... knave , but it chills the honest man , and makes him almost weary of his calling : and all that corruption attracts , it also retains ; for it is easier not to fall , than only to fall once , and not to yield a single inch , than having ...
Side 316
... knave . This position , while it dimin- ishes that odium ' which ought to attach to fraud , in the part of those who suffer by it , increases also the temptation to commit it , on the part of those who profit by it ; since there are so ...
... knave . This position , while it dimin- ishes that odium ' which ought to attach to fraud , in the part of those who suffer by it , increases also the temptation to commit it , on the part of those who profit by it ; since there are so ...
Side 342
... knave than with a fool ; ' for with the latter all considera- tion of consequence to himself , is swallowed up and lost in the blind and brutal impulse that goads him on to bring evil upon another . We hate our We enemy much , but we ...
... knave than with a fool ; ' for with the latter all considera- tion of consequence to himself , is swallowed up and lost in the blind and brutal impulse that goads him on to bring evil upon another . We hate our We enemy much , but we ...
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