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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... poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him : the poor man slipped , and they rebuked him ; he spoke wisely , and ...
... poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him : the poor man slipped , and they rebuked him ; he spoke wisely , and ...
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... poor man , I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man . Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleasing to those who come only for amusement ...
... poor man , I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man . Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleasing to those who come only for amusement ...
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... poor men's cottages princes ' palaces . He is a good divine who follows his own instruc- tions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching . & The web of our life is of ...
... poor men's cottages princes ' palaces . He is a good divine who follows his own instruc- tions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching . & The web of our life is of ...
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... poor beetle , that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world . -Love all , trust a few , Do wrong to none ...
... poor beetle , that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world . -Love all , trust a few , Do wrong to none ...
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... poor player , That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK II . Narrative Pieces . CHAP . I. THE 14 SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
... poor player , That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK II . Narrative Pieces . CHAP . I. THE 14 SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
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