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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... pain it gives the perfons who 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 ...
... pain it gives the perfons who 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 ...
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... pains to rake into , much less to remove . bat a 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 ...
... pains to rake into , much less to remove . bat a 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 ...
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... PAIN . HERE were two families which from the beginning world were famopposite to eat other darkness . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest defcendant of the first family was Pleasure , who was the ...
... PAIN . HERE were two families which from the beginning world were famopposite to eat other darkness . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest defcendant of the first family was Pleasure , who was the ...
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... Pain were no fooner met in their new ha- bitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take poffeffion of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part of that fpecies which was given up to them . But upon ...
... Pain were no fooner met in their new ha- bitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take poffeffion of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part of that fpecies which was given up to them . But upon ...
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... Pain , there to dwell with Mifery , Vice , and the Furies . Or on the contrary , if he had in him a certain proportion of good , he fhould be dispatched into heaven by a paffport from Pleafure , there to dwell with Happiness , Virtue ...
... Pain , there to dwell with Mifery , Vice , and the Furies . Or on the contrary , if he had in him a certain proportion of good , he fhould be dispatched into heaven by a paffport from Pleafure , there to dwell with Happiness , Virtue ...
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