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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... live upon contentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and ...
... live upon contentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and ...
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... live at present , but are providing to live another time . PARTY is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine fenfe , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
... live at present , but are providing to live another time . PARTY is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine fenfe , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
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... live in brafs ; their virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whip- ped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not ...
... live in brafs ; their virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whip- ped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not ...
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... Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHо fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved ...
... Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHо fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved ...
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... live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquefts were made on either fide . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the fame person between ...
... live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquefts were made on either fide . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the fame person between ...
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