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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... a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real use of riches , except in the diftribution : The reft is all conceit , A WISE man will defire no more than what he A WISE SELECT SENTENCES.
... a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real use of riches , except in the diftribution : The reft is all conceit , A WISE man will defire no more than what he A WISE SELECT SENTENCES.
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... WISE man will defire no more than what he may get juftly , ufe foberly , diftribute cheerfully , 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 ...
... WISE man will defire no more than what he may get juftly , ufe foberly , diftribute cheerfully , 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 ...
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... WISE man will fear in every thing . He that contem- neth small things , fhall fall by little and little . - A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends : but a poor man being down , is thruft away by his friends . When a rich ...
... WISE man will fear in every thing . He that contem- neth small things , fhall fall by little and little . - A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends : but a poor man being down , is thruft away by his friends . When a rich ...
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... And happiness too fwiftly flies : Thought would destroy their paradife.- No more where ignorance is blifs , ' Tis folly to be wise . M. 6 GRAY . CHAP . CHAP . X. ELE G Y. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHAP . IX . ) 253 DESCRIPTIVE PIECES .
... And happiness too fwiftly flies : Thought would destroy their paradife.- No more where ignorance is blifs , ' Tis folly to be wise . M. 6 GRAY . CHAP . CHAP . X. ELE G Y. WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHAP . IX . ) 253 DESCRIPTIVE PIECES .
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