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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... lines appear below the name William Enfield , as follows : Warrington Academy October 1 , 1774 This presumably would fix the date of the first edition . WNB LIBRARIES SPEAKER BLOOMINGTON OR , MISCELLANEOUS SELECTED FROM THE PIECES.
... lines appear below the name William Enfield , as follows : Warrington Academy October 1 , 1774 This presumably would fix the date of the first edition . WNB LIBRARIES SPEAKER BLOOMINGTON OR , MISCELLANEOUS SELECTED FROM THE PIECES.
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... first established , and has been uniformly con . ducted , on the extenfive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Literature , you have seen many respectable characters ...
... first established , and has been uniformly con . ducted , on the extenfive plan of providing a proper course of Instruction for young men in the most useful branches of Science and Literature , you have seen many respectable characters ...
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... first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we ...
... first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we ...
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... first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE not an old friend ...
... first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE not an old friend ...
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... first built ? The king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the laft perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him ...
... first built ? The king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the laft perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him ...
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