Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-fellow, to which are Added Notes Festivous, EtcW. Pickering, 1852 - 312 страници |
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... means the ris- ing city of Rome was soon peopled . 13 " Few men rise to power in a state , without a union of great and mean qualities . " - Lord Bacon . 14 " Honesty the best policy . " - Antediluvian adage ! Honesty is a ragged virtue ...
... means the ris- ing city of Rome was soon peopled . 13 " Few men rise to power in a state , without a union of great and mean qualities . " - Lord Bacon . 14 " Honesty the best policy . " - Antediluvian adage ! Honesty is a ragged virtue ...
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... means , " be the adopted motto of politicians . 18 " Do you not think piety to be a more important qualification for the ministry than learning ? once asked Mr. Wilberforce of an eminent prelate . " Certainly I do , " he answered ...
... means , " be the adopted motto of politicians . 18 " Do you not think piety to be a more important qualification for the ministry than learning ? once asked Mr. Wilberforce of an eminent prelate . " Certainly I do , " he answered ...
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... Mean in apparel , pinched in coarse food , bare - footed , ve- nerated , almost worshipped , by the greatest and most learned of his countrymen , did he daily move through Athens , the grand centre figure of mankind , the most divine ...
... Mean in apparel , pinched in coarse food , bare - footed , ve- nerated , almost worshipped , by the greatest and most learned of his countrymen , did he daily move through Athens , the grand centre figure of mankind , the most divine ...
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... means he can . " This " stately building so sodainely erected in the place of an olde , long stable , the outward wall whereof to the street side ( i . e . the Strand ) was very old and ruinate , " the " . upper shoppes " of which were ...
... means he can . " This " stately building so sodainely erected in the place of an olde , long stable , the outward wall whereof to the street side ( i . e . the Strand ) was very old and ruinate , " the " . upper shoppes " of which were ...
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... mean tyrant ! to thine . from a pint to a gill ; other bottles we have of leather , but they most used amongst the shepherds and harvest people of the country ; small jacks we have in many Ale- houses in the City and suburbs , tipt with ...
... mean tyrant ! to thine . from a pint to a gill ; other bottles we have of leather , but they most used amongst the shepherds and harvest people of the country ; small jacks we have in many Ale- houses in the City and suburbs , tipt with ...
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Страница 235 - London, to thee I do present the merry month of May; Let each true subject be content to hear me what I say: For from the top of conduit-head, as plainly may appear, I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore I came here. My name is Ralph, by due descent though not ignoble I, Yet far inferior to the flock of gracious grocery...
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Страница 290 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Страница 32 - I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What...
Страница 35 - Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again.
Страница 32 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
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