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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... Death of Cæfar XIV . Gloucefter's Speech to the Nobles BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . I. On Happinefs II . The Same Subject III . On Criticifm IV . On Negroes V. Rivers and Sir Harry VI . Sir John Melvil and Sterling VII . Belcour and Stockwell ...
... Death of Cæfar XIV . Gloucefter's Speech to the Nobles BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . I. On Happinefs II . The Same Subject III . On Criticifm IV . On Negroes V. Rivers and Sir Harry VI . Sir John Melvil and Sterling VII . Belcour and Stockwell ...
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... Death of Mrs Throgmorton's Bulfinch Cowper 434 BOOK 1 SELECT SENTENCES . T CHAP . I. O. CHAT . Page XXXV . Ode to Apollo XXXVI . Catharina Cowper 328 İbid 329 XXXVII . The Evening Walk Adriano 331 II . 1. The Story of Le Fevre Yorick's ...
... Death of Mrs Throgmorton's Bulfinch Cowper 434 BOOK 1 SELECT SENTENCES . T CHAP . I. O. CHAT . Page XXXV . Ode to Apollo XXXVI . Catharina Cowper 328 İbid 329 XXXVII . The Evening Walk Adriano 331 II . 1. The Story of Le Fevre Yorick's ...
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... death thereof is an evil death . My fon , blemish not thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou giveft any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ; fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better ...
... death thereof is an evil death . My fon , blemish not thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou giveft any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ; fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better ...
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... would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues . THE fenfe of death is moft in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we treed upon , โด In corporal fuffierance feels a pang as great , As CHAP . VIII . SELECT SENTENCES . 13.
... would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues . THE fenfe of death is moft in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we treed upon , โด In corporal fuffierance feels a pang as great , As CHAP . VIII . SELECT SENTENCES . 13.
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... deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It 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 ...
... deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It 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 ...
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