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. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 páginas |
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... . O that eftates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... . O that eftates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Он , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Он , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By ...
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... stands , For ever filent , and for ever fad .. THOMSON . CHA P. XVII . JUNIO AND THE . A N A. OON . as young reafon dawn'd in Junio's breaft , His father fent him from these genial ifles , To where old Thames with confcious pride ...
... stands , For ever filent , and for ever fad .. THOMSON . CHA P. XVII . JUNIO AND THE . A N A. OON . as young reafon dawn'd in Junio's breaft , His father fent him from these genial ifles , To where old Thames with confcious pride ...
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... stand up in a corrupt age , for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , intereft , or ... stands as a blót in the annals of his country , who arrives at the temple of honour by any other way than through that of ...
... stand up in a corrupt age , for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , intereft , or ... stands as a blót in the annals of his country , who arrives at the temple of honour by any other way than through that of ...
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... stand a helpless spectator of a thousand vexati- ons which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and rea- dinefs of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is ...
... stand a helpless spectator of a thousand vexati- ons which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and rea- dinefs of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is ...
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