Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... hand ; " while our own proverb is varied by the alternatives , " Words show the wit of a man , but actions his meaning ; " " Saying and not doing is cheap ; " and the Scotch , " Saying gangs cheap . " In another sense the saw may be ...
... hand ; " while our own proverb is varied by the alternatives , " Words show the wit of a man , but actions his meaning ; " " Saying and not doing is cheap ; " and the Scotch , " Saying gangs cheap . " In another sense the saw may be ...
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... hand . The ancient and medieval criers ( called præcones in Rome ) who , besides their public duties , announced the time , the place , and the conditions of sales , the hawkers who cried their own goods , the libelli of the Romans ...
... hand . The ancient and medieval criers ( called præcones in Rome ) who , besides their public duties , announced the time , the place , and the conditions of sales , the hawkers who cried their own goods , the libelli of the Romans ...
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... hands at the same kind of trifling . But the combined intellect of the world has produced nothing better than this ... hand at what may possibly be the earliest example . Speaking of periodical literature , he declares that the Golden ...
... hands at the same kind of trifling . But the combined intellect of the world has produced nothing better than this ... hand at what may possibly be the earliest example . Speaking of periodical literature , he declares that the Golden ...
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... ( hands off ! it shakes ) , apt enough in 1861 , when it was made , but not at present . Siste , nudat te ( stop ! he ... hand . Some of these are worth quoting , as , for example : JEREMY BENTHAM : The body of Jeremy Bentham never was ...
... ( hands off ! it shakes ) , apt enough in 1861 , when it was made , but not at present . Siste , nudat te ( stop ! he ... hand . Some of these are worth quoting , as , for example : JEREMY BENTHAM : The body of Jeremy Bentham never was ...
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... hands of her American publishers to be sold at two dollars apiece , -the money to be devoted to a charitable purpose ... hand for $ 50.00 , with my endorse- ment across the back . It cost me exactly $ 50.75 ( including protest ) , and ...
... hands of her American publishers to be sold at two dollars apiece , -the money to be devoted to a charitable purpose ... hand for $ 50.00 , with my endorse- ment across the back . It cost me exactly $ 50.75 ( including protest ) , and ...
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acrostic admiration advertisements Æsop American anagram ancient answer appeared asked Ben Jonson bouts-rimés Cæsar called century Charles common cried curious dead death Diogenes Laertius doth Duke Echo England English epigram epitaph essay expression eyes famous father fool France French gentleman give Goethe Greek hand hath head heart heaven Henry honor Horace Walpole horse Hudibras humor John Julius Cæsar king known lady language Latin letter lines literary literature live London Lord Lord Byron meaning mind modern Molière never Notes and Queries once origin person phrase Plutarch poem poet political Pope popular proverb Publius Syrus quoted replied says sense Shakespeare slang soul speech stanza story tell term thee things thou thought tion told turn verse Voltaire wife word write wrote young