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 |
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... said . As he was one evening with the emperor , in their return from hunting , they faw a couple of owls upon a tree that grew near an old wall out of a heap of rubbish . I would fain know , fays the fultan , what thofe two owls are ...
... said . As he was one evening with the emperor , in their return from hunting , they faw a couple of owls upon a tree that grew near an old wall out of a heap of rubbish . I would fain know , fays the fultan , what thofe two owls are ...
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... said , to bless him with three fons , the finest lads in all Germany ; but having in one week loft two of them by the Imall - pox , and the youngest falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and ...
... said , to bless him with three fons , the finest lads in all Germany ; but having in one week loft two of them by the Imall - pox , and the youngest falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and ...
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... said , was no less in force ; he took his fword from his fide - Here - faid he -take it ; and be trufty guardians of it , till better times put me in condition to reclaim it . THE prefident accepted the Marquis's fword - he ftaid a few ...
... said , was no less in force ; he took his fword from his fide - Here - faid he -take it ; and be trufty guardians of it , till better times put me in condition to reclaim it . THE prefident accepted the Marquis's fword - he ftaid a few ...
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... said the postillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank playing her vefpers upon her pipe , with her ...
... said the postillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank playing her vefpers upon her pipe , with her ...
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... said in the several parish churches and convents around for her , -but without effect ; we have ftill hopes , as fhe is fenfible for short intervals , that the Virgin at last will restore her to herself , but her parents , who know her ...
... said in the several parish churches and convents around for her , -but without effect ; we have ftill hopes , as fhe is fenfible for short intervals , that the Virgin at last will restore her to herself , but her parents , who know her ...
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