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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... deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 CHA P. V. ...
... deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 CHA P. V. ...
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... thou haft examined the truth ; under- ftand firft , and then rebuke . If thou wouldeft get a friend , prove him firft and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of ...
... thou haft examined the truth ; under- ftand firft , and then rebuke . If thou wouldeft get a friend , prove him firft and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of ...
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... thou been alive to have shared it with me . I thought by the accent , it had been an apoftrophe to his child ; but it was to his ass , and to the very ass we had seen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's misadventure . The ...
... thou been alive to have shared it with me . I thought by the accent , it had been an apoftrophe to his child ; but it was to his ass , and to the very ass we had seen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's misadventure . The ...
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... THOU haft one comfort , friend , faid I , at least in the lofs of thy poor beast ; I am fure thou hast been a merciful mafter to him . - Alas ! faid the mourner , I thought fo , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise ...
... THOU haft one comfort , friend , faid I , at least in the lofs of thy poor beast ; I am fure thou hast been a merciful mafter to him . - Alas ! faid the mourner , I thought fo , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise ...
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... Thou shalt not leave me , Sylvio , " faid fhe . I looked in Maria's eyes , and faw fhe was think . ing more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as fhe uttered them , the tears trickled down her cheeks . I SAT down ...
... Thou shalt not leave me , Sylvio , " faid fhe . I looked in Maria's eyes , and faw fhe was think . ing more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as fhe uttered them , the tears trickled down her cheeks . I SAT down ...
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