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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... HONOUR is but a fictious kind of honefty ; a mean , 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 fictious kind of honefty ; a mean , 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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... an undeserved dignity . O that eftates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... an undeserved dignity . O that eftates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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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 mafter of all the qualifications that can make you fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which ...
... 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 mafter of all the qualifications that can make you fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which ...
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... honoured by those who are young . In a word , my followers are favoured by the Gods , beloved by their acquaintance , efteemed by their country , and , af- ter the close of their labours , honoured by pofterity .. We know , by the life ...
... honoured by those who are young . In a word , my followers are favoured by the Gods , beloved by their acquaintance , efteemed by their country , and , af- ter the close of their labours , honoured by pofterity .. We know , by the life ...
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... 'd , at lefs expence , Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe , And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . CHAP . D 4 W CHA P. XIV . • SIR BALAA M. HERE CHAP . XIII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
... 'd , at lefs expence , Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe , And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . CHAP . D 4 W CHA P. XIV . • SIR BALAA M. HERE CHAP . XIII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
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