The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... . If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe , or of one impres- sion of the spade , with the general design and last re- VOL . II . - 3 sult , he would be overwhelmed by the sense of FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 25.
... . If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe , or of one impres- sion of the spade , with the general design and last re- VOL . II . - 3 sult , he would be overwhelmed by the sense of FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 25.
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... sense of their dis- proportion ; yet those petty operations incessantly con- tinued , in time surmount the greatest difficulties , and mountains are levelled , and oceans bounded , by the slender force of human beings . - Johnson ...
... sense of their dis- proportion ; yet those petty operations incessantly con- tinued , in time surmount the greatest difficulties , and mountains are levelled , and oceans bounded , by the slender force of human beings . - Johnson ...
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... Sense . - Common sense is nothing more than that which appears to be rational , whether it be so or not . It is the general opinion which it is the prerogative of reason to correct when it is enormous or savage . We grant also that ...
... Sense . - Common sense is nothing more than that which appears to be rational , whether it be so or not . It is the general opinion which it is the prerogative of reason to correct when it is enormous or savage . We grant also that ...
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... sense gives its decision in the homely proverb- half a loaf is better than no bread . " If optimism be unattainable , every thing that is good , should not be im- mediately laid aside . — London University Magazine . 66 DLIV . Liberty ...
... sense gives its decision in the homely proverb- half a loaf is better than no bread . " If optimism be unattainable , every thing that is good , should not be im- mediately laid aside . — London University Magazine . 66 DLIV . Liberty ...
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... sense of the word , I continue to do so as much as other persons ; for how necessarily soever they act , they are in- fluenced by a base and mischievous disposition of mind , against which I must guard myself and others , in propor ...
... sense of the word , I continue to do so as much as other persons ; for how necessarily soever they act , they are in- fluenced by a base and mischievous disposition of mind , against which I must guard myself and others , in propor ...
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