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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the fkies ; She brought an angel down . WHEN any term , or phrafe , is ufed to exprefs fome par- ticular meaning , not obviously arifing from the words , it fhould ...
... BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the fkies ; She brought an angel down . WHEN any term , or phrafe , is ufed to exprefs fome par- ticular meaning , not obviously arifing from the words , it fhould ...
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... better than a cenfurable excrefcence . Sed nunc non erat his locus . Whatever has no tendency to illuftrate the fubject , inter- rupts the reader's attention , and weakens the general effect . This rule must not , however , be ...
... better than a cenfurable excrefcence . Sed nunc non erat his locus . Whatever has no tendency to illuftrate the fubject , inter- rupts the reader's attention , and weakens the general effect . This rule must not , however , be ...
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... better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge is more heroic , than that which torments envy , by doing good . THE difcretion of a man deferreth his angef , and it is , his glory to pafs over a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like ...
... better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge is more heroic , than that which torments envy , by doing good . THE difcretion of a man deferreth his angef , and it is , his glory to pafs over a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like ...
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... better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better than a gift ? but both are with a gra- cious man . BLAME not before thou haft examined the truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldest get a friend , prove him first ...
... better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better than a gift ? but both are with a gra- cious man . BLAME not before thou haft examined the truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldest get a friend , prove him first ...
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... better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the profperity of an honeft man , I am best pleased with the confufion of a rascal . WHAT is often termed fhyness , is nothing more than ...
... better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the profperity of an honeft man , I am best pleased with the confufion of a rascal . WHAT is often termed fhyness , is nothing more than ...
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