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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... human mind with the moft lively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happi- nefs hereafter , large as our defires ...
... human mind with the moft lively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happi- nefs hereafter , large as our defires ...
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... this through a pro- penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those fchemes which it does not purfue . B 6 THE THE chief advantage , that ancient writers can boast over CHAP . VII . 11 SELECT SENTENCES . Warrington Academy.
... this through a pro- penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those fchemes which it does not purfue . B 6 THE THE chief advantage , that ancient writers can boast over CHAP . VII . 11 SELECT SENTENCES . Warrington Academy.
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... humanity , and is very confpicuous in the cha- racters of those who are looked upon as the greatest philo- fophers among the Heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as faints and holy men among Chriftians ...
... humanity , and is very confpicuous in the cha- racters of those who are looked upon as the greatest philo- fophers among the Heathens , as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as faints and holy men among Chriftians ...
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... human nature . The religious man fears , the man of honour scorns to do an ill action . The latter confiders vice as fomething that is beneath him , the other other as fomething that is offenfive to the Divine Being 78 Book III ...
... human nature . The religious man fears , the man of honour scorns to do an ill action . The latter confiders vice as fomething that is beneath him , the other other as fomething that is offenfive to the Divine Being 78 Book III ...
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... human nature , that he who wants it fcarce deferves the name of a man ; but we find several who so much abuse this notion , that they place the whole idea of honour in a kind of brutal courage ; by which means we have had many among us ...
... human nature , that he who wants it fcarce deferves the name of a man ; but we find several who so much abuse this notion , that they place the whole idea of honour in a kind of brutal courage ; by which means we have had many among us ...
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