Sancho: Or, The ProverbialistT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816 - 178 páginas |
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... better than a long one ; just as we should naturally prefer a bank - note to the same sum in Spartan money . But , to pursue the metaphor , she had so often suffered by the forgery of the notes , that she had learnt to prefer the ...
... better than a long one ; just as we should naturally prefer a bank - note to the same sum in Spartan money . But , to pursue the metaphor , she had so often suffered by the forgery of the notes , that she had learnt to prefer the ...
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... better hypothesis , should be betrayed into so rash a conjecture , as that I also came from the moon , I think it just and charitable to state the truth in the succeeding pages . There is one observation which it is desirable to premise ...
... better hypothesis , should be betrayed into so rash a conjecture , as that I also came from the moon , I think it just and charitable to state the truth in the succeeding pages . There is one observation which it is desirable to premise ...
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... Number Two also ? " 66 " " Child , " said my aunt , you are little " " better than an ideot . Number One ' means " your foolish self ; and , therefore , if I must put " into common English what is so briefly and 66 22.
... Number Two also ? " 66 " " Child , " said my aunt , you are little " " better than an ideot . Number One ' means " your foolish self ; and , therefore , if I must put " into common English what is so briefly and 66 22.
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... through my long life , whenever I have wanted a cure for selfishness , I have found nothing so efficacious as following my aunt Rachel's advice . A hundred times at least , when self has been getting the better of 40.
... through my long life , whenever I have wanted a cure for selfishness , I have found nothing so efficacious as following my aunt Rachel's advice . A hundred times at least , when self has been getting the better of 40.
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... better of nobler considerations , her " Look there , my boy ! " has sounded in my ears . I have looked with my mind's eye at the picture , and said , It is impossible to be a real follower of Christ , and to be selfish . But , to return ...
... better of nobler considerations , her " Look there , my boy ! " has sounded in my ears . I have looked with my mind's eye at the picture , and said , It is impossible to be a real follower of Christ , and to be selfish . But , to return ...
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Página 159 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 103 - ... exclaim, • Give them bark ! give them bark ! and let not an European perish, whom it is possible for a Peruvian to save.' Thus far all would be well. But conceive, instead of the assembly being permitted to act upon this benevolent decision, some Peruvian, of an age in which the prevalence of policy or mere prudence over justice and benevolence is more intelligible and pardonable, to arise, and thus to address his countrymen: • " ' Peruvians, you are far too precipitate. Consider, I beseech...
Página 99 - A fool and his money are soon parted ;" " A penny saved is a penny got;" " Money makes the man;" and who could resist such accumulated authorities?
Página 107 - Obey the eleventh," said the archbishop, "and you certainly will. — A new " commandment I give unto you, — that ye love
Página 105 - I'eruvums, are my reasons for opposing the wish of the speaker; and whoever promotes it, or opposes me, is a madman, and an enemy both to the Incas and the Great Spirit.'
Página 102 - I then thought looked old enough to know better) arose, and thus addressed the assembly : " Instead, sir, of replying directly to the reasonings of the speaker who has preceded me, I will simply put another case, and request his decision upon it. Suppose, instead of the present assembly, a thousand Peruvians convened on the banks of the Amazon, to take into consideration a supplication from the nations of Europe to supply them with that bark of Peru, which...
Página 100 - Heathen, convened a meeting near my aunt's mansion-house, to consider the means of extending to about sixty millions of poor idolatrous Hindoos the knowledge of Christianity. Now, whatever Religion and sound Wisdom might urge upon so plain a point, mere Prudence could not but be alarmed at an attempt, however quiet, to disturb the creed of sixty millions of people. Accordingly, having entered the assembly, I rose, and to the admiration of my aunt, made the following oration. '" I rise, Sir, to oppose...