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 W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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... . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 . SELECT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
... . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 . SELECT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
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... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Он , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus : Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite ,. By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Он , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus : Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite ,. By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow ...
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... stands For ever filent , and for ever faḍ . SOON CHAP . XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . THOMSON . as young Reafon dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father fent him from these genial ifles , To where old Thames with conscious pride furveys Green ...
... stands For ever filent , and for ever faḍ . SOON CHAP . XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . THOMSON . as young Reafon dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father fent him from these genial ifles , To where old Thames with conscious pride furveys Green ...
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... stand up in a corrupt age for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , intereft , or experience of such men , make them very often useful in all parties , and at all times . But whatever wealth and dignities they ...
... stand up in a corrupt age for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , intereft , or experience of such men , make them very often useful in all parties , and at all times . But whatever wealth and dignities they ...
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... stand a helpless spectator of a thou- fand vexations which fret away happiness , and which no- thing is required to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readiness of expedients . A 4 No degree of knowledge , attainable by man ...
... stand a helpless spectator of a thou- fand vexations which fret away happiness , and which no- thing is required to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readiness of expedients . A 4 No degree of knowledge , attainable by man ...
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