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If for no other reason , careful choice among the classics and limited quotations from the best were rendered necessary by the scarcity of books . While manuscripts were rare , and when the labor of transcribing them was irksome and ...
If for no other reason , careful choice among the classics and limited quotations from the best were rendered necessary by the scarcity of books . While manuscripts were rare , and when the labor of transcribing them was irksome and ...
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They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names given them , for no other reason but that they may be killed , and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head .
They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names given them , for no other reason but that they may be killed , and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head .
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The seeds of punning are in the minds of all men ; and though they may be subdued by reason , reflection , and good sense , they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art .
The seeds of punning are in the minds of all men ; and though they may be subdued by reason , reflection , and good sense , they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius that is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art .
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To account for this we must consider , that the first race of authors , who were the great heroes in writing , were destitute of all rules and arts of criticism ; and for that reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of ...
To account for this we must consider , that the first race of authors , who were the great heroes in writing , were destitute of all rules and arts of criticism ; and for that reason , though they excel later writers in greatness of ...
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For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breeding . For if we examine thoroughly the idea of what we call so , we shall find it to be nothing else but ...
For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity , which is what we express by the word good breeding . For if we examine thoroughly the idea of what we call so , we shall find it to be nothing else but ...
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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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