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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... human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary cuftom or falfe tafte to discover and correct thofe tones , and habits of fpeaking , which are grofs deviations . from nature , and as far as they prevail must ...
... human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary cuftom or falfe tafte to discover and correct thofe tones , and habits of fpeaking , which are grofs deviations . from nature , and as far as they prevail must ...
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... human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to excute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a grammar it would be poffible for any one to inftruct himself in the use ...
... human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to excute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a grammar it would be poffible for any one to inftruct himself in the use ...
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... Human Life Thomfon 124 XXII . XXIII . On Procraftination XXIV . Reflections on a future State The Pain arifing from virtuous Emotions attended with Pleasure Ibid . 125 Young 127 Akenfide 128 XXV . On Tafte Ibid . 132 XXVI . The ...
... Human Life Thomfon 124 XXII . XXIII . On Procraftination XXIV . Reflections on a future State The Pain arifing from virtuous Emotions attended with Pleasure Ibid . 125 Young 127 Akenfide 128 XXV . On Tafte Ibid . 132 XXVI . The ...
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... enemy ; but in paffing it over , he is fuperior . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . A MORE glorious victory cannot be gained over another B 2 man man , than this , that when the injury began CHAP . III . SELECT SENTENCES . 3.
... enemy ; but in paffing it over , he is fuperior . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . A MORE glorious victory cannot be gained over another B 2 man man , than this , that when the injury began CHAP . III . SELECT SENTENCES . 3.
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... human mind with the most lively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness here- after , large as our defires ...
... human mind with the most lively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness here- after , large as our defires ...
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