Sancho: Or, The ProverbialistT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816 - 178 pages |
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... given a complexion and shape to most of the events of my own life - which has been , in fact , a sort of destiny , lashing me through a series of large and little occurrences , follies , and distresses ; a very small portion of which ...
... given a complexion and shape to most of the events of my own life - which has been , in fact , a sort of destiny , lashing me through a series of large and little occurrences , follies , and distresses ; a very small portion of which ...
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... given case was , not what was best to be done , but what my aunt Winifred thought it best to do - or , in other words , as she rarely acted but on the authority of a proverb , what she could find proverbial authority for doing . This ...
... given case was , not what was best to be done , but what my aunt Winifred thought it best to do - or , in other words , as she rarely acted but on the authority of a proverb , what she could find proverbial authority for doing . This ...
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... given by painters to the philosopher who had made the long - desired discovery of the secret about Hiero's crown , and who exultingly ran about the city , crying , " I have discovered it , I have discovered it . " Rachel was calmly knit ...
... given by painters to the philosopher who had made the long - desired discovery of the secret about Hiero's crown , and who exultingly ran about the city , crying , " I have discovered it , I have discovered it . " Rachel was calmly knit ...
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... given me a few days before , I very simply asked , " And , aunt , must not I take care of " Number Two also ? " 66 " " Child , " said my aunt , you are little " " better than an ideot . Number One ' means " your foolish self ; and ...
... given me a few days before , I very simply asked , " And , aunt , must not I take care of " Number Two also ? " 66 " " Child , " said my aunt , you are little " " better than an ideot . Number One ' means " your foolish self ; and ...
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... both . The only expedient which occurred to her was the searching for some other proverb which might supply some sort of qualification for this . She would at the mo- ment , I firmly believe , have given fifty pounds 23.
... both . The only expedient which occurred to her was the searching for some other proverb which might supply some sort of qualification for this . She would at the mo- ment , I firmly believe , have given fifty pounds 23.
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Page 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...