Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... common hypocrisy and cant with which they set themselves up for moralists and saints when- ever they are about to be particularly scandalous . We could mention certain British Mawworms who never venture upon an indecent or abusive ...
... common hypocrisy and cant with which they set themselves up for moralists and saints when- ever they are about to be particularly scandalous . We could mention certain British Mawworms who never venture upon an indecent or abusive ...
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... common in colloquial language as to hear people talk of wooden tombstones , iron milestones , glass ink - horns , brass shoeing - horns . iron coppers , and copper hand - irons ? -We LETTER TO THE ROYAL LITERARY SOCIETY . 15.
... common in colloquial language as to hear people talk of wooden tombstones , iron milestones , glass ink - horns , brass shoeing - horns . iron coppers , and copper hand - irons ? -We LETTER TO THE ROYAL LITERARY SOCIETY . 15.
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... common oaths , exclamations , and interjec- tions , there is much room for Academical supervision . For the vulgar phrase , " All my eye and Betty Mar- tin , " we might resume the Latin of the monkish hymn which it was meant to ...
... common oaths , exclamations , and interjec- tions , there is much room for Academical supervision . For the vulgar phrase , " All my eye and Betty Mar- tin , " we might resume the Latin of the monkish hymn which it was meant to ...
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... common dictum , that the best side of a plum - pudding is the left side , ( i . e . that which is left , ) can be logically said of a piece cut from the centre ; whether you may legally object to paying for candles , as of bad quality ...
... common dictum , that the best side of a plum - pudding is the left side , ( i . e . that which is left , ) can be logically said of a piece cut from the centre ; whether you may legally object to paying for candles , as of bad quality ...
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... common resort of newsmongers in the most polished days of Athens , is attested by the way in which they first learnt the great defeat of their general Nicias at Syracuse . A stranger who landed in the Piræus mentioned this event as he ...
... common resort of newsmongers in the most polished days of Athens , is attested by the way in which they first learnt the great defeat of their general Nicias at Syracuse . A stranger who landed in the Piræus mentioned this event as he ...
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