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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... fecure us in this happiness to all eternity . SUCH Confiderations which every one should perpetually cherish in his thoughts , will banish from us all that fecret hea- vinefs of heart which unthinking men are fubject to when they lie ...
... fecure us in this happiness to all eternity . SUCH Confiderations which every one should perpetually cherish in his thoughts , will banish from us all that fecret hea- vinefs of heart which unthinking men are fubject to when they lie ...
Page 69
... fecure way of dealing in the world ; it hath less of trouble and difficulty , of entanglement and perplexity , of danger and hazard in it it is the fhorteft and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftraight line , and will ...
... fecure way of dealing in the world ; it hath less of trouble and difficulty , of entanglement and perplexity , of danger and hazard in it it is the fhorteft and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftraight line , and will ...
Page 125
... fecure him from contempt , and maintain him in the poffeffion of his just au- thority . Nor does any thing commonly leffen us more in the eyes of others , than our own paffion . It often expofeth us to the contempt and derifion of those ...
... fecure him from contempt , and maintain him in the poffeffion of his just au- thority . Nor does any thing commonly leffen us more in the eyes of others , than our own paffion . It often expofeth us to the contempt and derifion of those ...
Page 137
... fecure the fuccefs , if our own courage does not fail us . And all thofe warriors , who have ever been fo brave when foreign enemies were to be fubdued , or when conquests were to be made to gratify the . ambition and avarice of Tarquin ...
... fecure the fuccefs , if our own courage does not fail us . And all thofe warriors , who have ever been fo brave when foreign enemies were to be fubdued , or when conquests were to be made to gratify the . ambition and avarice of Tarquin ...
Page 141
... fecure from danger in the roads thither ; but for you , there is no middle fortune between death and victory , Let this be but well fixed in your minds , and once again , I fay , you are conquerors . CHA P. III . LIVY . C. MARIUS TO THE ...
... fecure from danger in the roads thither ; but for you , there is no middle fortune between death and victory , Let this be but well fixed in your minds , and once again , I fay , you are conquerors . CHA P. III . LIVY . C. MARIUS TO THE ...
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