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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... fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worse than he speaks and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . : BETTER to reign in Hell , than serve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She ...
... fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worse than he speaks and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . : BETTER to reign in Hell , than serve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She ...
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... fools . As to be perfectly just , is an attribute of the divine na- ture ; to be fɔ to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before fuffered himself to ...
... fools . As to be perfectly just , is an attribute of the divine na- ture ; to be fɔ to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before fuffered himself to ...
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... fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can be wife but by his own wisdom . HE who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning ...
... fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can be wife but by his own wisdom . HE who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning ...
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... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . IT is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . IT is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
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... fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . BE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
... fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . BE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
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