Classical and Foreign Quotations,law Terms and Maxims,proverbs,mottoes,phrases,and Expressions in French,German,Greek,Italian,Latin,Spanish,and Portuguese |
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1 Natural and essential as one would imagine such details to be to any collection of quotations , it does not appear to have entered into the plan of any previous compilers , so that the idea has almost the merit of originality .
1 Natural and essential as one would imagine such details to be to any collection of quotations , it does not appear to have entered into the plan of any previous compilers , so that the idea has almost the merit of originality .
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1 The book , as will be seen by reference to the title - page , is somewhat of an encyclopædic nature , and includes many items that are not , in any sense , citations from authors , but which have been added with the object of making ...
1 The book , as will be seen by reference to the title - page , is somewhat of an encyclopædic nature , and includes many items that are not , in any sense , citations from authors , but which have been added with the object of making ...
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The uniformity of nature furnishes a ground of induction , upon which we may conclude that a similar condition of things being given , what has happened once will happen again . In the same way a man's habits afford presumption for the ...
The uniformity of nature furnishes a ground of induction , upon which we may conclude that a similar condition of things being given , what has happened once will happen again . In the same way a man's habits afford presumption for the ...
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Keep your finery for the mob , I know your nature , inside as well as out . Such pageantry be to the people shown , There boast thy horse's trappings and thy own ; I know thee to the bottom , from within Thy shallow centre to thy utmost ...
Keep your finery for the mob , I know your nature , inside as well as out . Such pageantry be to the people shown , There boast thy horse's trappings and thy own ; I know thee to the bottom , from within Thy shallow centre to thy utmost ...
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... but he was a person of such versatile talents , and so equally adapted for any and every pursuit , that let him be doing what he would , you would have said that it was the very thing that nature had intended him for . 107.
... but he was a person of such versatile talents , and so equally adapted for any and every pursuit , that let him be doing what he would , you would have said that it was the very thing that nature had intended him for . 107.
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| Title | Classical and Foreign Quotations,law Terms and Maxims,proverbs,mottoes,phrases,and Expressions in French,German,Greek,Italian,Latin,Spanish,and Portuguese |
| Author | William Francis Henry King |
| Compiled by | William Francis Henry King |
| Publisher | Whitaker & Sons, 1887 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 608 pages |
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