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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A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him : the ...
A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him : the ...
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There is one that slippeth in his speech , but not from his heart : and who is he , that hath not offended with his tongue ? Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit , and shall never find a friend to his mind .
There is one that slippeth in his speech , but not from his heart : and who is he , that hath not offended with his tongue ? Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit , and shall never find a friend to his mind .
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Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just : And he but naked , though lock'd up in steel , Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted . CHAP . IX . OH , World ! thy slippery turns : Friends now fast sworn , Whose double bosoms ...
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just : And he but naked , though lock'd up in steel , Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted . CHAP . IX . OH , World ! thy slippery turns : Friends now fast sworn , Whose double bosoms ...
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MOST potent , grave , and reverend Signiors , My very noble and approv'd good masters , That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter , It is most true ; true , I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this ...
MOST potent , grave , and reverend Signiors , My very noble and approv'd good masters , That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter , It is most true ; true , I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this ...
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Particularly as to the affairs of this world , integrity hath many advantages over all the ar- tificial modes of dissimulation and deceit . It is much the plainer and easier , much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world ...
Particularly as to the affairs of this world , integrity hath many advantages over all the ar- tificial modes of dissimulation and deceit . It is much the plainer and easier , much the safer and more secure way of dealing in the world ...
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