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Alas , it is too true that no selection can be perfect , and that no single choice is faultless . Yet , though opinions differ as to the relative value of much that has been chosen or omitted here , it may be claimed with confidence ...
Alas , it is too true that no selection can be perfect , and that no single choice is faultless . Yet , though opinions differ as to the relative value of much that has been chosen or omitted here , it may be claimed with confidence ...
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I do not find that there was a proper separation made between puns and true wit by any of the ancient authors , except Quintilian and Longinus . But when this distinction was once settled , it was very natural for all men of sense to ...
I do not find that there was a proper separation made between puns and true wit by any of the ancient authors , except Quintilian and Longinus . But when this distinction was once settled , it was very natural for all men of sense to ...
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If it bears the test , you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment , you may conclude it to have been a pun . In short , one may say of a pun , as the countryman described his nightingale , that it is vox et ...
If it bears the test , you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment , you may conclude it to have been a pun . In short , one may say of a pun , as the countryman described his nightingale , that it is vox et ...
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He arrived true to his appointment , and the dinner was ordered forthwith ; but when it was served up , he found to his dismay that it was contained in a narrow - necked vessel , down which the Stork readily thrust her long neck and ...
He arrived true to his appointment , and the dinner was ordered forthwith ; but when it was served up , he found to his dismay that it was contained in a narrow - necked vessel , down which the Stork readily thrust her long neck and ...
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But this should not discourage us , for , after all , those maps were in the main true as far as they went ; and as the ancient geographers were laying the foundation for all our modern knowledge of the present conformation of the globe ...
But this should not discourage us , for , after all , those maps were in the main true as far as they went ; and as the ancient geographers were laying the foundation for all our modern knowledge of the present conformation of the globe ...
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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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