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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... honour covers all their faults , as that of paffion , all their follies . ECONOMY is no difgrace ; it is better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the profperity of an honeft man ...
... honour covers all their faults , as that of paffion , all their follies . ECONOMY is no difgrace ; it is better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the profperity of an honeft man ...
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... honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfehood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of taste ; and we fhould as much avoid ...
... honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfehood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of taste ; and we fhould as much avoid ...
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... HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean , but a neceffary fubftitute for it , in focieties who have none ; it is a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the fterling cash of true ...
... HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean , but a neceffary fubftitute for it , in focieties who have none ; it is a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the fterling cash of true ...
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... honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover that ftand bear ! 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 ...
... honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover that ftand bear ! 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 ...
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... honoured by your country , you must take care to ferve it . In fhort , if you would be eminent in war or peace , you must become master of all the qualifications that can make fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I ...
... honoured by your country , you must take care to ferve it . In fhort , if you would be eminent in war or peace , you must become master of all the qualifications that can make fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I ...
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