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While this business was consigned to his journeyman, the master himself took
down some pieces of silk still finer than any I had yet seen, and spreading them
before me, There, cries he, there's beauty, my Lord Snakeskin has besfioke the ...
While this business was consigned to his journeyman, the master himself took
down some pieces of silk still finer than any I had yet seen, and spreading them
before me, There, cries he, there's beauty, my Lord Snakeskin has besfioke the ...
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They often seem dragged to what wears the appearance of application. Thus
being dilatory in the begin**ing, all future hopes of eminence are entirely cut & -.
o. - o - - o o - o -- * A translation of this passage may also be seen in Du Halde,
Vol.
They often seem dragged to what wears the appearance of application. Thus
being dilatory in the begin**ing, all future hopes of eminence are entirely cut & -.
o. - o - - o o - o -- * A translation of this passage may also be seen in Du Halde,
Vol.
Seite 72
We have seen with terror a winged phalanx of famished locusts each singly
contemptible, but from multitude become hideous, cover, like clouds, the face of
day, and threaten the world with ruin. We have seen them settling on the fertile
plains ...
We have seen with terror a winged phalanx of famished locusts each singly
contemptible, but from multitude become hideous, cover, like clouds, the face of
day, and threaten the world with ruin. We have seen them settling on the fertile
plains ...
Seite 94
... habit, and sharpened by necessity; you have seen, like me, many literary
reputations promoted by the influence of fashion, which have scarcely survived
the possessor; you have seen the poor hardly earn the little reputation they
acquired, ...
... habit, and sharpened by necessity; you have seen, like me, many literary
reputations promoted by the influence of fashion, which have scarcely survived
the possessor; you have seen the poor hardly earn the little reputation they
acquired, ...
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For my own part, my friend, I have seen enough of presuming ignorance, never to
venerate wisdom but where it actually appears. I have received literary titles and
distinctions myself; and, by the quantity of my own wisdom, know how very little ...
For my own part, my friend, I have seen enough of presuming ignorance, never to
venerate wisdom but where it actually appears. I have received literary titles and
distinctions myself; and, by the quantity of my own wisdom, know how very little ...
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