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A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down,
is thrust away by his friends. When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers: he
speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipt, ...
A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down,
is thrust away by his friends. When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers: he
speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipt, ...
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Whe Rever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there
would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowe Rs of rhetoric in
sermons or serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing
to ...
Whe Rever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there
would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowe Rs of rhetoric in
sermons or serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing
to ...
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... to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
He is a good divine who follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty
what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own - teaching
.
... to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
He is a good divine who follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty
what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own - teaching
.
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Out, out, brief candle : Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and
frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more ' It is a tale Told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - B O OK o - - - - - N A R RATIVE
18 ...
Out, out, brief candle : Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and
frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more ' It is a tale Told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - B O OK o - - - - - N A R RATIVE
18 ...
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(cries a second man to the boy) is it fit for you to be riding, while your poor old
father is walking on foot * The father, upon this rebuke, took down his boy from
the ass, and mounted himself. Do you see (says a third) how the lazy old knave
rides ...
(cries a second man to the boy) is it fit for you to be riding, while your poor old
father is walking on foot * The father, upon this rebuke, took down his boy from
the ass, and mounted himself. Do you see (says a third) how the lazy old knave
rides ...
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| Title | 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, ... |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Publisher | A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2016 |
| Length | 405 pages |
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