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 are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 páginas |
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... HONOUR ............... Guardian , 68 18. LESSONS OF WISDOM ......... .. Armstrong , 92 5. ON GOOD HÜMOUR ....... Rambler , 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE : An Epistle 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD Davies , 94 ....... Ib . 7399. ELEGY TO A ...
... HONOUR ............... Guardian , 68 18. LESSONS OF WISDOM ......... .. Armstrong , 92 5. ON GOOD HÜMOUR ....... Rambler , 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE : An Epistle 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD Davies , 94 ....... Ib . 7399. ELEGY TO A ...
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... honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit , are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal . Though an honourable title may be conveyed to posterity , yet the ennobling qualities , which are the soul of greatness , are a ...
... honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit , are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal . Though an honourable title may be conveyed to posterity , yet the ennobling qualities , which are the soul of greatness , are a ...
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... Honour thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the sorrows of thy mother ; how canst thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? There is nothing so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of talkers ...
... Honour thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the sorrows of thy mother ; how canst thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? There is nothing so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of talkers ...
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... honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . Aliar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth ...
... honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . Aliar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth ...
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... Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean but a necessary substitute for it in societies who have none : it is a sort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cash of true ...
... Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean but a necessary substitute for it in societies who have none : it is a sort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cash of true ...
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