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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean but a necessary substitute for it in societies who have none : it is a sort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are ...
... pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean but a necessary substitute for it in societies who have none : it is a sort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are ...
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... PAIN . THE HERE were two families , which , from the beginning of the world , were as opposite to each other as light and dark- ness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest descendant of the first family ...
... PAIN . THE HERE were two families , which , from the beginning of the world , were as opposite to each other as light and dark- ness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest descendant of the first family ...
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... Pain were no sooner met in their new habi- tation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take possession of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them . But upon ...
... Pain were no sooner met in their new habi- tation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take possession of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them . But upon ...
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... pain , and remove you from all the noise and disquietude of business . The affairs of either war or peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment shall be to make your life easy , and to entertain every sense with ...
... pain , and remove you from all the noise and disquietude of business . The affairs of either war or peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment shall be to make your life easy , and to entertain every sense with ...
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... pains and labour . The Gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure . 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 study to oblige them ...
... pains and labour . The Gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure . 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 study to oblige them ...
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