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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The wife and husband would often declare themselves of the two different parties ; nay , the same person would very often side with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wise men of the world stood neu- ...
The wife and husband would often declare themselves of the two different parties ; nay , the same person would very often side with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wise men of the world stood neu- ...
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... all other differences were soon accommodat ed , insomuch that for the future they resolved to live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side .
... all other differences were soon accommodat ed , insomuch that for the future they resolved to live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side .
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LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters in a little cottage , by the side of a hill , at a great distance from town . They were totally unacquainted with the great ...
LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters in a little cottage , by the side of a hill , at a great distance from town . They were totally unacquainted with the great ...
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The old man , hearing this , set his boy upon the ass , and went whistling by the side of him . Why , sirrah ! cries a second man to the boy , is it fit for you to be riding , while your poor old father is walking on foot ?
The old man , hearing this , set his boy upon the ass , and went whistling by the side of him . Why , sirrah ! cries a second man to the boy , is it fit for you to be riding , while your poor old father is walking on foot ?
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The mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door , with the ass's pannel and it's bridle on one side , which he took up from time to time - then laid them down - looked at them , and shook his head .
The mourner was sitting upon a stone bench at the door , with the ass's pannel and it's bridle on one side , which he took up from time to time - then laid them down - looked at them , and shook his head .
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