The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 páginas |
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... worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . A good word is an eafy obligation : but not to speak ill requires only our filence , which cofts us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes ...
... worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . A good word is an eafy obligation : but not to speak ill requires only our filence , which cofts us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes ...
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... worfe ; Fall forrow's tooth doth never rankle more , Than when it bites , but lanceth not the fore . -'Tis flander ; Whofe edge is fharper than the fword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the posting ...
... worfe ; Fall forrow's tooth doth never rankle more , Than when it bites , but lanceth not the fore . -'Tis flander ; Whofe edge is fharper than the fword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the posting ...
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... worfe . Oh fons of earth ! attempt ye ftill to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ! Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals ...
... worfe . Oh fons of earth ! attempt ye ftill to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ! Heav'n ftill with laughter the vain toil furveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals ...
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... worfe abuse , our anger , I fuppofe , may rife fomewhat higher . Now as the degrees of injustice are infinite , if our anger must always be proportioned to the occafion , it may poffibly N 2 CHAP . 1. ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . 147.
... worfe abuse , our anger , I fuppofe , may rife fomewhat higher . Now as the degrees of injustice are infinite , if our anger must always be proportioned to the occafion , it may poffibly N 2 CHAP . 1. ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . 147.
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... worfe of them for it . BEL . Not at all ; not at all ; I like them the better : was I only a visitor , I might , perhaps , wifh them a little more tractable ; but as a fellow fubject , and a fharer in their freedom , I applaud their ...
... worfe of them for it . BEL . Not at all ; not at all ; I like them the better : was I only a visitor , I might , perhaps , wifh them a little more tractable ; but as a fellow fubject , and a fharer in their freedom , I applaud their ...
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