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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... thousand intimate acquaintances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one friend , think yourself happy . When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will ...
... thousand intimate acquaintances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one friend , think yourself happy . When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will ...
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... thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , " Were I Alexander , I ...
... thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , " Were I Alexander , I ...
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... thousand . Be not confident in a plain way . Let reason go before every enterprise , and counsel before every action . CHAP . VI . - THE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies , prejudices , and false ...
... thousand . Be not confident in a plain way . Let reason go before every enterprise , and counsel before every action . CHAP . VI . - THE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies , prejudices , and false ...
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... thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? Upon her breathless corse himself he threw , And to her clay cold lips , with trembling haste , Ten thousand kisses gave . He strove to speak : Nor words he found he clasp'd her in his ...
... thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? Upon her breathless corse himself he threw , And to her clay cold lips , with trembling haste , Ten thousand kisses gave . He strove to speak : Nor words he found he clasp'd her in his ...
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... thousand vexa- tions , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readi- ness of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of ...
... thousand vexa- tions , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readi- ness of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of ...
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