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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... of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . BL BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELLCT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
... of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . BL BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELLCT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
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... peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one coun- fellor of a thoufand . Be not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counsel before every action . CHAP . VI . THE latter part of a wife man's life is ...
... peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one coun- fellor of a thoufand . Be not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counsel before every action . CHAP . VI . THE latter part of a wife man's life is ...
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... peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment fhall be to make your life easy , and to entertain every sense , with its proper gratifications . Sumptuous tables , beds of roses , clouds of perfumes , concerts of mufic ...
... peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment fhall be to make your life easy , and to entertain every sense , with its proper gratifications . Sumptuous tables , beds of roses , clouds of perfumes , concerts of mufic ...
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... Peace , A humble cottage stood . There beauteous EMMA flourish'd fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whose only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient ...
... Peace , A humble cottage stood . There beauteous EMMA flourish'd fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whose only wish on earth was now To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blafh that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient ...
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... peace to thine , " Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint ...
... peace to thine , " Tis fafety to be near thee fure , and thus " To clafp perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint ...
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