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A MAN may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend among
them all. If you have one friend, think yourself happy. - WHEN once you profess
yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true
friends, ...
A MAN may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend among
them all. If you have one friend, think yourself happy. - WHEN once you profess
yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true
friends, ...
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WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with
him, he answered, the earth cannot Alexander's, hearing the great offers Darius
had made, said, were I Alexander I would accept them. So would I, replied ...
WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with
him, he answered, the earth cannot Alexander's, hearing the great offers Darius
had made, said, were I Alexander I would accept them. So would I, replied ...
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Be in peace with many; nevertheless, have but one counfellor of a thousand. Be
not confident in a plain way. Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel
before every action. C H A P. VI. The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in ...
Be in peace with many; nevertheless, have but one counfellor of a thousand. Be
not confident in a plain way. Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel
before every action. C H A P. VI. The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in ...
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... larger”—Nature could no more?" She look'd, embrac'd him, with a groan expir'd
. But say, what strains, what language can express E 4 The The thousand pangs,
which tore the lover's breast Upon her CH A P.XVII.) N A R RATIVE PIE C E S.
... larger”—Nature could no more?" She look'd, embrac'd him, with a groan expir'd
. But say, what strains, what language can express E 4 The The thousand pangs,
which tore the lover's breast Upon her CH A P.XVII.) N A R RATIVE PIE C E S.
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The thousand pangs, which tore the lover's breast Upon her breathless corse
himself he threw, And to her clay-cold lips, with trembling haste, Ten thousand
kisses gave. He strove to speak; 2 Nor words he found : he claspt her in his arms;
He ...
The thousand pangs, which tore the lover's breast Upon her breathless corse
himself he threw, And to her clay-cold lips, with trembling haste, Ten thousand
kisses gave. He strove to speak; 2 Nor words he found : he claspt her in his arms;
He ...
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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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