Sancho: Or, The ProverbialistT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816 - 178 páginas |
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... maxim , or any thing approaching to a neat , pointed , pithy , oracular , sententious saying , bore a pretty exact proportion to her sister's unbounded reverence C for them . Not that she instinctively abhorred them ; 10.
... maxim , or any thing approaching to a neat , pointed , pithy , oracular , sententious saying , bore a pretty exact proportion to her sister's unbounded reverence C for them . Not that she instinctively abhorred them ; 10.
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... maxim so constructed as to say at once , " Take care of Number One , and of your aunt . " But no such proverb occurred to her . She called to mind indeed , for she was a tolerable Latin scholar , the proverb in that language ...
... maxim so constructed as to say at once , " Take care of Number One , and of your aunt . " But no such proverb occurred to her . She called to mind indeed , for she was a tolerable Latin scholar , the proverb in that language ...
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... maxim , unqualified and unmitigated , in all its own native simplicity and majesty , " Take care of Number One . " With such a recommendation , it could scarcely fail to be remembered and valued . Accordingly , thus armed and accoutred ...
... maxim , unqualified and unmitigated , in all its own native simplicity and majesty , " Take care of Number One . " With such a recommendation , it could scarcely fail to be remembered and valued . Accordingly , thus armed and accoutred ...
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... maxim in my heart , I descended the steps of a post - chaise to enter for the first time upon all the distinctions and trials of a school - boy . The house was unusually high , covered with narrow windows , protected each , like those ...
... maxim in my heart , I descended the steps of a post - chaise to enter for the first time upon all the distinctions and trials of a school - boy . The house was unusually high , covered with narrow windows , protected each , like those ...
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... maxim , and saying to myself , " It seems to me as if one of the best ways to ' take care of Number One ' was to take care of all the rest of the numbers . " At last , however , the doctor left me , and I soon recovered . And , with my ...
... maxim , and saying to myself , " It seems to me as if one of the best ways to ' take care of Number One ' was to take care of all the rest of the numbers . " At last , however , the doctor left me , and I soon recovered . And , with my ...
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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...