The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic Selections from the Writings of the Most Eminent Humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ...William Evans Burton D. Appleton, 1859 |
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24. oldal
... matters , and account the squires that bring challenges from knights , as people of but very small desert ? Thinking ... matter that requires the head to contrive , but the hand to execute . The greatest fool is as fit for it as a wise ...
... matters , and account the squires that bring challenges from knights , as people of but very small desert ? Thinking ... matter that requires the head to contrive , but the hand to execute . The greatest fool is as fit for it as a wise ...
25. oldal
... matter ; you will take care not to present yourself with a full breast , but angularly , and your head turned round over the left shoul- der , like a weather - cock . For thus a smaller sur- face being presented to an adversary , he ...
... matter ; you will take care not to present yourself with a full breast , but angularly , and your head turned round over the left shoul- der , like a weather - cock . For thus a smaller sur- face being presented to an adversary , he ...
27. oldal
... matter , " said the other ; " Indian speeches are nearly all alike . You have only to talk of burying hatchets under large trees , kindling fires , brightening chains ; with a demand , at the latter end , of rum to get drunk on . " 64 ...
... matter , " said the other ; " Indian speeches are nearly all alike . You have only to talk of burying hatchets under large trees , kindling fires , brightening chains ; with a demand , at the latter end , of rum to get drunk on . " 64 ...
28. oldal
... matter to have the ears slit in tatters , and the nose run through with a bodkin , and a goose - quill stuck across ; so that you may go about your business- you will get no king of the Kickapoos here . ” Under cover of this address of ...
... matter to have the ears slit in tatters , and the nose run through with a bodkin , and a goose - quill stuck across ; so that you may go about your business- you will get no king of the Kickapoos here . ” Under cover of this address of ...
29. oldal
... matter fills his various page ? A mere farrago ' tis of mingled things ; Whate'er is done on madam Terra's stage , He to the knowledge of his townsmen brings ; One while , he tells of monarchs run away ; And now , of witches drown'd in ...
... matter fills his various page ? A mere farrago ' tis of mingled things ; Whate'er is done on madam Terra's stage , He to the knowledge of his townsmen brings ; One while , he tells of monarchs run away ; And now , of witches drown'd in ...
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