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... and the use to which it is applied , with the solemnity of the building , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy , or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable .
... and the use to which it is applied , with the solemnity of the building , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy , or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable .
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I could not but look upon these registers of existence , whether of brass or marble , as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them , but that they were born , and that they died .
I could not but look upon these registers of existence , whether of brass or marble , as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them , but that they were born , and that they died .
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1 THERE is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed ...
1 THERE is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed ...
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I must add to these great authorities , which seem to have given a kind of sanction to this piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into ...
I must add to these great authorities , which seem to have given a kind of sanction to this piece of false wit , that all the writers of rhetoric have treated of punning with very great respect , and divided the several kinds of it into ...
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... by some of the last winter's productions , which had their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very excusable for any apprehensions of this kind ...
... by some of the last winter's productions , which had their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very excusable for any apprehensions of this kind ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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