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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... lives like other folks . Then you will pass into Africa : WILL pass , did I say ? In expressing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few words , the weight of the sentiment should be accompanied with a ...
... lives like other folks . Then you will pass into Africa : WILL pass , did I say ? In expressing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few words , the weight of the sentiment should be accompanied with a ...
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... live upon con- 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 ...
... live upon con- 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 ...
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... live at present , but are providing to live another time . 1 Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
... live at present , but are providing to live another time . 1 Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
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... lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a ...
... lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a ...
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... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle , that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle ...
... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle , that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle ...
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