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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... thousand vexati- ons which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and rea- dinefs of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of ...
... thousand vexati- ons which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and rea- dinefs of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of ...
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... thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnaffus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to Church repair Not for the doctrine , but the mufic there . Thefe equal fyllables ...
... thousand charms confpire , Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; Who haunt Parnaffus but to please their ear , Not mend their minds ; as fome to Church repair Not for the doctrine , but the mufic there . Thefe equal fyllables ...
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... thousand nameless ills , That one inceffant struggle render life , One scene of toil , of fuffering , and of fate , Vice in his high career would stand appall'd , And heedless rambling Impulfe learn to think ; The conscious heart of ...
... thousand nameless ills , That one inceffant struggle render life , One scene of toil , of fuffering , and of fate , Vice in his high career would stand appall'd , And heedless rambling Impulfe learn to think ; The conscious heart of ...
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... thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at present . Pofe Were a human foul thr and in her accomplishments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away ...
... thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at present . Pofe Were a human foul thr and in her accomplishments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away ...
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... thousand ways , and many of them contradictory ? I confefs , faid I , it seems fo . And yet continued he , were there a point , in which such diffentients ever agreed , this agreement would be no mean argument in favour of its truth and ...
... thousand ways , and many of them contradictory ? I confefs , faid I , it seems fo . And yet continued he , were there a point , in which such diffentients ever agreed , this agreement would be no mean argument in favour of its truth and ...
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