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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... fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . AN angry man who fuppreffes his paffior , thinks worse 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 paffior , thinks worse 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 fo to the utmost of our abilities , is ... fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . B 2 THOUGA THOUGH a man may become ...
... fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the divine na- ture ; to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is ... fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . B 2 THOUGA THOUGH a man may become ...
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... , which cofts us nothing . Ir is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a párt ; part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but 4 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... , which cofts us nothing . Ir is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a párt ; part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but 4 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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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 fparkles ; 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 fparkles ; 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 . BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thoufand . BE not ...
... 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 . BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thoufand . BE not ...
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