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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Page 11
... excellent things in the world in fkilful hands ; in unskilful , moft mifchievous . A MAN fhould never be ashamed to own he has been in B 6 the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES . IL.
... excellent things in the world in fkilful hands ; in unskilful , moft mifchievous . A MAN fhould never be ashamed to own he has been in B 6 the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES . IL.
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... saying in other words , that he is wifer to - day than he was yesterday . WHEREVER I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man I take it for granted there would be as much generofity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in ...
... saying in other words , that he is wifer to - day than he was yesterday . WHEREVER I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man I take it for granted there would be as much generofity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in ...
Page 68
... say you ? Dick heard , and tweedling , ogling , bridling , Turning fhort round , ftrutting and fideling , Attested , glad , his approbation Of an immediate conjugation . Their fentiment fo well exprefs'd , Influenced mightily the reft ...
... say you ? Dick heard , and tweedling , ogling , bridling , Turning fhort round , ftrutting and fideling , Attested , glad , his approbation Of an immediate conjugation . Their fentiment fo well exprefs'd , Influenced mightily the reft ...
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... Say , here he gives too little , there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy fport or guft , 1 et cry , if Man's unhappy , God's unjuft ; If man alone ingrofs not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch ...
... Say , here he gives too little , there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy fport or guft , 1 et cry , if Man's unhappy , God's unjuft ; If man alone ingrofs not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch ...
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... Say , in what mortal foil thou deign'st to grow ? Fair op'ning to fome Court's propitious shine , ' Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? ' Twin'd with the wreaths Parnaffian laurels yield , ' Or reap'd in iron harvests of the ...
... Say , in what mortal foil thou deign'st to grow ? Fair op'ning to fome Court's propitious shine , ' Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? ' Twin'd with the wreaths Parnaffian laurels yield , ' Or reap'd in iron harvests of the ...
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