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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 páginas |
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... fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worfe than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He ...
... fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worfe than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He ...
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... fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the divine na- ture ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to ...
... fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the divine na- ture ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to ...
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... fool who fancied he played the organ , when he only blew the bellows . upon THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can be wife but by his own wifdom . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning ...
... fool who fancied he played the organ , when he only blew the bellows . upon THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can be wife but by his own wifdom . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning ...
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... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
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... fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . RE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
... fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . RE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
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