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 TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... understanding , the study of polite litera- ture cultivates the taste , and improves the heart ; and both unite , to form the Accomplished and Happy Man . ! BOOK I. Select Sentences . CHAP . I. To ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . xlii.
... understanding , the study of polite litera- ture cultivates the taste , and improves the heart ; and both unite , to form the Accomplished and Happy Man . ! BOOK I. Select Sentences . CHAP . I. To ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . xlii.
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... tentedly . 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 . B There is but one way of fortifying the soul against SELECT SENTENCES BOOK I Chop ON ANGER.
... tentedly . 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 . B There is but one way of fortifying the soul against SELECT SENTENCES BOOK I Chop ON ANGER.
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... happy . When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the ...
... happy . When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the ...
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... happy ; that he might make a distinction between the good and the bad , ordered the two youngest of the above - mentioned families , Pleasure , wlio was the daughter of Happiness , and Pain , who was the son of Misery , to meet one ...
... happy ; that he might make a distinction between the good and the bad , ordered the two youngest of the above - mentioned families , Pleasure , wlio was the daughter of Happiness , and Pain , who was the son of Misery , to meet one ...
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... happy period of the golden age , when all the ce- lestial inhabitants descended to the earth , and conversed familiarly with mortals , among the most cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , Love and Joy ...
... happy period of the golden age , when all the ce- lestial inhabitants descended to the earth , and conversed familiarly with mortals , among the most cherished of the heavenly powers were twins , the offspring of Jupiter , Love and Joy ...
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