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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... virtue , that possession would not show us , While it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange , that men ...
... virtue , that possession would not show us , While it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange , that men ...
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... Virtue , who was the offspring of the Gods . These , as I said before , had their habitation in Heaven . The youngest of the opposite family was Pain , who was the son of Misery , who was the child of Vice , who was , the offspring of ...
... Virtue , who was the offspring of the Gods . These , as I said before , had their habitation in Heaven . The youngest of the opposite family was Pain , who was the son of Misery , who was the child of Vice , who was , the offspring of ...
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... Virtue , and the Gods . SPECTATOR . CHAP . V. LABOUR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters in a little cottage , by the side of a hill , at a great distance from town ...
... Virtue , and the Gods . SPECTATOR . CHAP . V. LABOUR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters in a little cottage , by the side of a hill , at a great distance from town ...
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... virtue , and application to the studies proper for your age . This makes me hope you will gain , both for yourself and me , an immortal reputation . But be- fore I invite you into my society and friendship , I will be open and sincere ...
... virtue , and application to the studies proper for your age . This makes me hope you will gain , both for yourself and me , an immortal reputation . But be- fore I invite you into my society and friendship , I will be open and sincere ...
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... Virtue's nobler view , By precepts and example too , Would often boast his matchless skill , To curb the steed , and guide the wheel ; And as he pass'd the gazing throng , With graceful ease , and smack'd the thong , The idiot wonder ...
... Virtue's nobler view , By precepts and example too , Would often boast his matchless skill , To curb the steed , and guide the wheel ; And as he pass'd the gazing throng , With graceful ease , and smack'd the thong , The idiot wonder ...
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