The tin trumpet; or, Heads and tales, for the wise and waggish; to which are added, poetical selections. By the late Paul Chatfield. Ed. by Jefferson Saunders. By H. Smith1869 |
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... , their author's characteristic whimsicality . To avoid the use of a hammer , which was associated , in his mind , with the chairman of a club , it was his good pleasure to suspend from his neck a small X INTRODUCTION .
... , their author's characteristic whimsicality . To avoid the use of a hammer , which was associated , in his mind , with the chairman of a club , it was his good pleasure to suspend from his neck a small X INTRODUCTION .
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... mind in wandering over the wilder and least frequented districts of the north of England , as well as such an expanded field for the exercise of his philanthropy , the ruling passion of his soul , that he formed the Quixotic resolution ...
... mind in wandering over the wilder and least frequented districts of the north of England , as well as such an expanded field for the exercise of his philanthropy , the ruling passion of his soul , that he formed the Quixotic resolution ...
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... , their author's characteristic whimsicality . To avoid the use of a hammer , which was associated , in his mind , with the chairman of a club , it was his good pleasure to suspend from his neck a small X INTRODUCTION .
... , their author's characteristic whimsicality . To avoid the use of a hammer , which was associated , in his mind , with the chairman of a club , it was his good pleasure to suspend from his neck a small X INTRODUCTION .
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... mind that I broadly dissent from many of the crude notions and fanciful theories broached by my late excellent but eccentric friend . J. S. HARROWGATE , February , 1835 . THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE . Ad Candidum Lectorem . CUM legis xvi ...
... mind that I broadly dissent from many of the crude notions and fanciful theories broached by my late excellent but eccentric friend . J. S. HARROWGATE , February , 1835 . THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE . Ad Candidum Lectorem . CUM legis xvi ...
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... mind , so may he have clean hands in a literal , and not in a metaphorical sense . All washes and cosmetics without , he may yet labour under a moral hydro- phobia within . Pleasant to see an im - puritan of this stamp holding his nose ...
... mind , so may he have clean hands in a literal , and not in a metaphorical sense . All washes and cosmetics without , he may yet labour under a moral hydro- phobia within . Pleasant to see an im - puritan of this stamp holding his nose ...
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Page 50 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 45 - THE Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith : And yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree...
Page 365 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 341 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 179 - Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.
Page 179 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 167 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Page 52 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 245 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts...
Page 339 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion 'were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.