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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In short , we depend upon a Being , whose power qualifies him to make us happy
by an infinity of means , whose goodness and truth engage him to make those
happy who desire it of him , and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this ...
In short , we depend upon a Being , whose power qualifies him to make us happy
by an infinity of means , whose goodness and truth engage him to make those
happy who desire it of him , and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this ...
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ALL men pursue Good ; and would be liappy , if they knew how ; not happy for
minutes , and miserable for hours ; but happy , if possible , through every part of
their existence . Either therefore there is a good of this steady durable kind , or
there ...
ALL men pursue Good ; and would be liappy , if they knew how ; not happy for
minutes , and miserable for hours ; but happy , if possible , through every part of
their existence . Either therefore there is a good of this steady durable kind , or
there ...
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with anguish — but thy joys shall balance it ; for happy is thy cottage , and happy
is the sharer of it , and happy are the lambs which sport about you . STERNE .
CHAP . II . LIBERTY AND SLAVERY . Disguise thyself as thou wilt , still , Slavery
...
with anguish — but thy joys shall balance it ; for happy is thy cottage , and happy
is the sharer of it , and happy are the lambs which sport about you . STERNE .
CHAP . II . LIBERTY AND SLAVERY . Disguise thyself as thou wilt , still , Slavery
...
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ContenTMENT , parent of delight , So much a stranger to our sight , Say ,
goddess , in what happy place Mortals behold thy blooming face ; Thy gracious
auspices impart , And for thy teniple choose my heart . They , whom thou
deignest to ...
ContenTMENT , parent of delight , So much a stranger to our sight , Say ,
goddess , in what happy place Mortals behold thy blooming face ; Thy gracious
auspices impart , And for thy teniple choose my heart . They , whom thou
deignest to ...
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... His valiant Peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with inyrtle
bound : So should desert in arins be crown'd . The lovely Thäis by his side Sat ,
like a blooming eastern bride , In flow'r of youth , and beauty's pride . Happy ...
... His valiant Peers were plac'd around ; Their brows with roses and with inyrtle
bound : So should desert in arins be crown'd . The lovely Thäis by his side Sat ,
like a blooming eastern bride , In flow'r of youth , and beauty's pride . Happy ...
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