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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... BETTER to reign in Hell , than serve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express fome particular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the ...
... BETTER to reign in Hell , than serve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express fome particular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the ...
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... better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge is more heroic , than that which torments envy , by doing good . THE difcretion of a man deferreth his anger , and it is his glory to pafs over a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like ...
... better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge is more heroic , than that which torments envy , by doing good . THE difcretion of a man deferreth his anger , and it is his glory to pafs over a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like ...
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... better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better than a gift ? but B 4 CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7.
... better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better than a gift ? but B 4 CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7.
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... better than a gift ? but both are with a gra- cious man . BLAME not , before thou hast examined the truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for ...
... better than a gift ? but both are with a gra- cious man . BLAME not , before thou hast examined the truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for ...
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... they are re- fentful . YOUNG menare fubtle arguers ; the cloak of honour covers all their faults , at that of paffion , all their follies . B 5 ECONOMY ECONOMY is no difgrace ; it is better living on CHAP . VI . SELECT SENTENCES . 9.
... they are re- fentful . YOUNG menare fubtle arguers ; the cloak of honour covers all their faults , at that of paffion , all their follies . B 5 ECONOMY ECONOMY is no difgrace ; it is better living on CHAP . VI . SELECT SENTENCES . 9.
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