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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... please without adulation : and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a deferving man , fhall ...
... please without adulation : and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a deferving man , fhall ...
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... please . God grant a long life to Sultan Mahmoud ; whilft he reigns over us , we shall never want ruined villages . The ftory fays , the fultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been ...
... please . God grant a long life to Sultan Mahmoud ; whilft he reigns over us , we shall never want ruined villages . The ftory fays , the fultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been ...
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... please , fays the owner , and alighting with his fon , they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endea- voured to carry him upon their fhoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was fo entertaining a ...
... please , fays the owner , and alighting with his fon , they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endea- voured to carry him upon their fhoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was fo entertaining a ...
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... please the fair ) The well - bread cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains , And one more penfioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from ...
... please the fair ) The well - bread cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains , And one more penfioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from ...
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... please . 111 SPECTATOR . CHAPTER III . ON SINCERITY . TRUTH and Sincerity have all the advantages of appear- ance , and many more . If the fhow of any thing be good for any thing , I am fure the reality is better ; for why does any man ...
... please . 111 SPECTATOR . CHAPTER III . ON SINCERITY . TRUTH and Sincerity have all the advantages of appear- ance , and many more . If the fhow of any thing be good for any thing , I am fure the reality is better ; for why does any man ...
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