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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... pass over a transgression . Money , like manure , does no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches , except in the distribution : the rest is all conceit . A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly , use ...
... pass over a transgression . Money , like manure , does no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches , except in the distribution : the rest is all conceit . A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly , use ...
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... passing it over , he is superior . To err is human : to forgive , divine . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man , than this , that when the injury began on his part , the kindness should begin on ours . The prodigal ...
... passing it over , he is superior . To err is human : to forgive , divine . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man , than this , that when the injury began on his part , the kindness should begin on ours . The prodigal ...
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... the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for may be done by one great or wise action in an age : but this to escape censure , a man must pass his whole SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
... the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for may be done by one great or wise action in an age : but this to escape censure , a man must pass his whole SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
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... pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings ...
... pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings ...
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... pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse for old age . As for me , I am the friend of Gods , and of good men , an agreeable companion to the artizan , a ...
... pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment , and remorse for old age . As for me , I am the friend of Gods , and of good men , an agreeable companion to the artizan , a ...
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