Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... answer to the first , -i.e . Upstart [ upstarted ] a churl and gathered good , And thence did spring our gentle blood This seems to be an after - thought of comparatively recent birth . Adam , the old . The unregenerate part of man's ...
... answer to the first , -i.e . Upstart [ upstarted ] a churl and gathered good , And thence did spring our gentle blood This seems to be an after - thought of comparatively recent birth . Adam , the old . The unregenerate part of man's ...
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... answer , until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations except the last . The one thing in which most of these good people agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them ...
... answer , until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations except the last . The one thing in which most of these good people agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them ...
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... answer to some communication by letter , inserts the word " INCORRUPTIBLE " with his initials . And on the 25th he celebrates his own incorruptibility in song : DIOGENES HIS LANTERN NEEDS NO MORE , An honest man is found , the search is ...
... answer to some communication by letter , inserts the word " INCORRUPTIBLE " with his initials . And on the 25th he celebrates his own incorruptibility in song : DIOGENES HIS LANTERN NEEDS NO MORE , An honest man is found , the search is ...
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... answer to a query as to his pedigree , said , " I make little account of genea- logical trees . Mere family never made a man great . Thought and deed , not pedigree , are the passports to enduring fame . " - Fortnightly Review , October ...
... answer to a query as to his pedigree , said , " I make little account of genea- logical trees . Mere family never made a man great . Thought and deed , not pedigree , are the passports to enduring fame . " - Fortnightly Review , October ...
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... answer in the English tongue - NE SE BY GOD , -i.e . , Not so by God . Upon which the king and his courtiers , deriding him , and corruptly repeating his answer , called him bigot , which was the origin of the term . Cotgrave's ...
... answer in the English tongue - NE SE BY GOD , -i.e . , Not so by God . Upon which the king and his courtiers , deriding him , and corruptly repeating his answer , called him bigot , which was the origin of the term . Cotgrave's ...
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