An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1862 - 261 strán (strany) |
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... true that I do think that this terrible cataclysm , if I may be allowed to use a fine word which does not express my meaning or any meaning at all — I say , for it is necessary to begin the sentence again , otherwise you might not be ...
... true that I do think that this terrible cataclysm , if I may be allowed to use a fine word which does not express my meaning or any meaning at all — I say , for it is necessary to begin the sentence again , otherwise you might not be ...
Strana 8
... true facts put in a false light . I might go on to mention various books of this kind , and I might even tell their names , if I were spiteful enough and if I did not think more of doing good myself than exposing those who do harm . But ...
... true facts put in a false light . I might go on to mention various books of this kind , and I might even tell their names , if I were spiteful enough and if I did not think more of doing good myself than exposing those who do harm . But ...
Strana 20
... true as the best novel . It con- tains a little about a great many things , and therein differs from those books which contain a great deal about nothing . Quidquid agunt homines , votum , timor , ira , voluptas , Gaudia , discursus ...
... true as the best novel . It con- tains a little about a great many things , and therein differs from those books which contain a great deal about nothing . Quidquid agunt homines , votum , timor , ira , voluptas , Gaudia , discursus ...
Strana 22
... true causes are followed by effects , then the publishers would have an easy time of it and all authors would be as rich as some are . As this is not so , writing is not a true cause nor reading a true effect of writing , but they stand ...
... true causes are followed by effects , then the publishers would have an easy time of it and all authors would be as rich as some are . As this is not so , writing is not a true cause nor reading a true effect of writing , but they stand ...
Strana 27
... true , and the same remark applies to all general rules about human life . Perhaps the world is not growing better at the same time that it is growing richer , for in my own experience I never yet knew a man who had raised himself in ...
... true , and the same remark applies to all general rules about human life . Perhaps the world is not growing better at the same time that it is growing richer , for in my own experience I never yet knew a man who had raised himself in ...
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