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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... labour under it , by the prejudice it affords eve- ry worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour ...
... labour under it , by the prejudice it affords eve- ry worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour ...
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... LABOUR . ABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daugh- ters in a little cottage , by the fide of a hill , at a great dif- tance from town . They were totally unacquainted with the ...
... LABOUR . ABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daugh- ters in a little cottage , by the fide of a hill , at a great dif- tance from town . They were totally unacquainted with the ...
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... Labour : fhe fuffered herself to be debauched by Intemperance , and at laft died in child - birth of Disease . Contentment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the enticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after ...
... Labour : fhe fuffered herself to be debauched by Intemperance , and at laft died in child - birth of Disease . Contentment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the enticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after ...
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... labour . The Gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleafure . If you would gain the favour of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must Atudy to oblige them ; if you ...
... labour . The Gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleafure . If you would gain the favour of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must Atudy to oblige them ; if you ...
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... labour to feem to have it is loft . There is fomething unnatural in painting , which a skilful eye will eafily difcern from native beauty and complexion . Ir is hard to perfonate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the ...
... labour to feem to have it is loft . There is fomething unnatural in painting , which a skilful eye will eafily difcern from native beauty and complexion . Ir is hard to perfonate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the ...
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