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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... live upon con- tentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and ...
... live upon con- tentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and ...
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... live at present , but are providing to live another time . PARTY is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine fenfe , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
... live at present , but are providing to live another time . PARTY is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine fenfe , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
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... lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . bat a HONOUR is but a ...
... lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . bat a HONOUR is but a ...
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... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished ...
... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished ...
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... Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an undeserved ...
... Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an undeserved ...
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