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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... seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and .. are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the fame ; and every judicious imitation of it will always ...
... seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and .. are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the fame ; and every judicious imitation of it will always ...
Page 10
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . and we A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like A LIAR 10 SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . and we A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like A LIAR 10 SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
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... seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us ...
... seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us ...
Page 24
... very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated between them by 24 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
... very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated between them by 24 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
Page 37
... seems her only confolation - she has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help ...
... seems her only confolation - she has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help ...
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