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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... live upon contentedly . A contented mind , and a good conscience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . C There is but one way of fortifying the foul against Select Sentences BOOK I.
... live upon contentedly . A contented mind , and a good conscience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . C There is but one way of fortifying the foul against Select Sentences BOOK I.
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... live at present , but are providing to live another time . • Party is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
... live at present , but are providing to live another time . • Party is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
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... lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rub- bish which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a ...
... lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rub- bish which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a ...
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... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished ...
... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished ...
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... Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep./ -Who fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear an undeserved ...
... Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep./ -Who fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear an undeserved ...
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