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 man may have a 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 ...
A man may have a 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 ...
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When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , “ The earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . ” Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , “ The earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . ” Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
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The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a sweet life . Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand .
The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a sweet life . Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand .
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But say , what strains , what language can express The 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 .
But say , what strains , what language can express The 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 .
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He that can only be useful on great occasions may die without exerting his abilities , and stand a helpless spectator of a thousand vexations , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is required to remove but a little dexterity ...
He that can only be useful on great occasions may die without exerting his abilities , and stand a helpless spectator of a thousand vexations , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is required to remove but a little dexterity ...
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