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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... telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be ...
... telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be ...
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... very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul- tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but e but dare not tell you what it is . 20 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . ibid Turkish Tale.
... very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul- tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but e but dare not tell you what it is . 20 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES . ibid Turkish Tale.
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... tell you what it is . The Sultan would not be faisfied with fuch an answer , but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid . You must know then , faid the vifier , that one of thefe owls has a fon , and the other ...
... tell you what it is . The Sultan would not be faisfied with fuch an answer , but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid . You must know then , faid the vifier , that one of thefe owls has a fon , and the other ...
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... tell the caufes which gradually brought the houfe d'E *** , in Brittany , into decay . The Marquis d'E *** had fought up against his condition -with great firm- nefs ; wishing to preferve and ftill fhew to the world fome little ...
... tell the caufes which gradually brought the houfe d'E *** , in Brittany , into decay . The Marquis d'E *** had fought up against his condition -with great firm- nefs ; wishing to preferve and ftill fhew to the world fome little ...
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... tell · -but God tempers the wind , faid Maria , to the fhorn lamb . SHORN indeed ! and to the quick , faid I : and waft thou in my own land , where I have a cottage , I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my ...
... tell · -but God tempers the wind , faid Maria , to the fhorn lamb . SHORN indeed ! and to the quick , faid I : and waft thou in my own land , where I have a cottage , I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my ...
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