The Repository of Wit and Humor: Comprising More Than One Thousand Anecdotes, Odd Scraps, Off-hand Hits, and Humorous SketchesJ. P. Jewett & Company, 1857 - 392 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 27 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Σελίδα 12 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Σελίδα 167 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I...
Σελίδα 146 - ... knowing the fatal consequences that would happen to his children and people in case he should die before he put an end to that war, he commanded his principal officers, that if he died during the...
Σελίδα 32 - As with my hat upon my head, I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.
Σελίδα 334 - A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face ; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form : it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
Σελίδα 122 - SWIFT 121 you may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learnt them both.
Σελίδα 29 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Σελίδα 272 - The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, 'the man who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Σελίδα 293 - The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.