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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... Happiness . XVI . On Virtue . XVII . On Verfification . XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom , ib . 95 ib . 97 ib .. 100 Armstrong . 101 104 Mafon . 107 XIX . Against Indolence ; an Epiftle . XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman . XXI . On the Miseries ...
... Happiness . XVI . On Virtue . XVII . On Verfification . XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom , ib . 95 ib . 97 ib .. 100 Armstrong . 101 104 Mafon . 107 XIX . Against Indolence ; an Epiftle . XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman . XXI . On the Miseries ...
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... Happiness . II . The fame Subject . III . On Criticifm . IV . On Negroes . V. Rivers and Sir Harry . Harris . 182 ibid . 188 . Sterne . 193 ibid . 195 Falfe Delicacy . 196 VI . Sir John Melvil and Sterling . Clandeft . Mar , 198 VII ...
... Happiness . II . The fame Subject . III . On Criticifm . IV . On Negroes . V. Rivers and Sir Harry . Harris . 182 ibid . 188 . Sterne . 193 ibid . 195 Falfe Delicacy . 196 VI . Sir John Melvil and Sterling . Clandeft . Mar , 198 VII ...
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... Mrs. Barbauld . 295 XXVII . Domeftic Love and Happiness . XXVIII . The Pleasures of Retirementt ibid . 299 Themjon . 297 XXIX . Genius . Akenfide . 302 XXX . Greatness CHAP . XXX . Greatness . XXXI . Novelty . CONTENTS . ix.
... Mrs. Barbauld . 295 XXVII . Domeftic Love and Happiness . XXVIII . The Pleasures of Retirementt ibid . 299 Themjon . 297 XXIX . Genius . Akenfide . 302 XXX . Greatness CHAP . XXX . Greatness . XXXI . Novelty . CONTENTS . ix.
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... happiness here- after , large as our defires , and lafting as our immortal fouls ; without this the highest state of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP HONOURABLE CHAP . V. ONOURABLE age is not that which 66 ...
... happiness here- after , large as our defires , and lafting as our immortal fouls ; without this the highest state of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP HONOURABLE CHAP . V. ONOURABLE age is not that which 66 ...
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... occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine , they will repent of the determination ; and this through a pro- penfity penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes 12 ( Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine , they will repent of the determination ; and this through a pro- penfity penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes 12 ( Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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