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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... hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . IT is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
... hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . IT is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
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... hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourfelves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide { ; IT 2 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES . Virtue our higheft ...
... hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourfelves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide { ; IT 2 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES . Virtue our higheft ...
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... hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him the poor man flipt , and they rebuked him : he spoke wifely , and could could have no place . When a rich man fpeaketh 6 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him the poor man flipt , and they rebuked him : he spoke wifely , and could could have no place . When a rich man fpeaketh 6 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brass ; the death thereof is an evil death . My ...
... hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brass ; the death thereof is an evil death . My ...
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... hath , is a fweet life . BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thoufand . BE not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counfel be- fore every action . CHAP . VI . THE latter ...
... hath , is a fweet life . BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thoufand . BE not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counfel be- fore every action . CHAP . VI . THE latter ...
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