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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature to shake off our veracity . L THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than firft to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others faults , wife men correct their own . No ...
... TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature to shake off our veracity . L THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than firft to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others faults , wife men correct their own . No ...
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... TRUTH is always confiftent with itself and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon ...
... TRUTH is always confiftent with itself and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon ...
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... truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldest get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
... truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldest get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
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... truths . - MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty B 5 feems feems to be ...
... truths . - MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty B 5 feems feems to be ...
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... truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfehood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of taste ; and we fhould as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in dif- courfe , as we would puns , bad language , or false ...
... truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfehood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of taste ; and we fhould as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in dif- courfe , as we would puns , bad language , or false ...
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