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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That proud exception to all Nature's laws , 13 T invert the world , and counterwork
it's cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest , law ; if Till Superstition
taught the tyrant awe , on ? Then shar'd the tyranny , then lent it aid , * , And ...
That proud exception to all Nature's laws , 13 T invert the world , and counterwork
it's cause ? Force first made conquest , and that conquest , law ; if Till Superstition
taught the tyrant awe , on ? Then shar'd the tyranny , then lent it aid , * , And ...
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Such is the nature of the septennial law ; it was intended only as a preservative
against a temporary inconvenience : the ... Let us take advantage of it , to repeal
those laws which infringe our liberties , and introduce such as may restore the ...
Such is the nature of the septennial law ; it was intended only as a preservative
against a temporary inconvenience : the ... Let us take advantage of it , to repeal
those laws which infringe our liberties , and introduce such as may restore the ...
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And so you think , because I am not legally bound , I am under no necessity of
keeping my word ! Sir Harry , laws were never made for men of honour : they
want no bond but the rectitude of their own sentiments , and laws are of no use
but to ...
And so you think , because I am not legally bound , I am under no necessity of
keeping my word ! Sir Harry , laws were never made for men of honour : they
want no bond but the rectitude of their own sentiments , and laws are of no use
but to ...
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I then did use the person of your father ; The image of his pow'r lay then in me :
And in th ' administration of his law , While I was busy for the commonwealth ,
Your highness pleased to forget my place , The majesty and pow'r of law and
justice ...
I then did use the person of your father ; The image of his pow'r lay then in me :
And in th ' administration of his law , While I was busy for the commonwealth ,
Your highness pleased to forget my place , The majesty and pow'r of law and
justice ...
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Some trace with curious search the hidden cause Of Nature's changes , and her
various laws ; Untwist her beauteous web , disrobe her charms , And hunt her to
her elemental forms ; Or prove what hidden pow'rs in herbs are found , To ...
Some trace with curious search the hidden cause Of Nature's changes , and her
various laws ; Untwist her beauteous web , disrobe her charms , And hunt her to
her elemental forms ; Or prove what hidden pow'rs in herbs are found , To ...
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