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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... which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of their determination ; and this through a pro- penfity 3 penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of their determination ; and this through a pro- penfity 3 penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes which it does not pursue . THE chief advantage that ancient writers can boast over modern ones feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a ...
... human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes which it does not pursue . THE chief advantage that ancient writers can boast over modern ones feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a ...
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... humanity , and is very confpicuous in the characters of thofe who are looked upon as the greatest philofophers a- mong the Heathens , as well as among those who have been E 2 defe.vedly defervedly esteemed as faints and holy men among ...
... humanity , and is very confpicuous in the characters of thofe who are looked upon as the greatest philofophers a- mong the Heathens , as well as among those who have been E 2 defe.vedly defervedly esteemed as faints and holy men among ...
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... Religion embraces virtue , as it is enjoined by the laws of God ; honour , as it is grace-- ful and ornamental to human nature . The religious man E 5 : fears ,, fears , the man of honour fcorns to do an CHAP . IV . DIDACTIC PIECES .. 71.
... Religion embraces virtue , as it is enjoined by the laws of God ; honour , as it is grace-- ful and ornamental to human nature . The religious man E 5 : fears ,, fears , the man of honour fcorns to do an CHAP . IV . DIDACTIC PIECES .. 71.
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... human nature , that he who wants it fcarce deferves the name of a man ; but we find several who fo 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 fo 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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