The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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The following instances are of this kind : Anger may glance into the bicast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse than he ...
The following instances are of this kind : Anger may glance into the bicast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse than he ...
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Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . ... Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only ...
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . ... Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only ...
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... but not to speak ill requires only our silence , which costs us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes it's whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but ...
... but not to speak ill requires only our silence , which costs us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes it's whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but ...
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The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a sweet life . Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one coun- sellor of a thousand ...
The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a sweet life . Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one coun- sellor of a thousand ...
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To morrow , and to morrow , and to morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusky death . Out , out , brief candle !
To morrow , and to morrow , and to morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusky death . Out , out , brief candle !
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