The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 páginas |
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... fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worse than he speaks : and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than ferve in Heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She ...
... fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worse than he speaks : and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than ferve in Heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She ...
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... fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the Divine Nature : to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is ... fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by ...
... fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the Divine Nature : to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is ... fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by ...
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... our filence , which cofts us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but 28 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... our filence , which cofts us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but 28 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; - but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; - but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
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... fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand . Be not ...
... fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand . Be not ...
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