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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... once fet a going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In ...
... once fet a going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In ...
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... Once you profefs yourself a friend , endeavour to be always fuch . He can never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men ...
... Once you profefs yourself a friend , endeavour to be always fuch . He can never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men ...
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... once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the fame time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not fo much as take warning ? ALTHOUGH men ...
... once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the fame time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not fo much as take warning ? ALTHOUGH men ...
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... once the harmony . MEN's zeal for religion is much of the fame kind as that which they fhew for a foot - ball : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at ...
... once the harmony . MEN's zeal for religion is much of the fame kind as that which they fhew for a foot - ball : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at ...
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... 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 goodness in things evil , Would men ...
... 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 goodness in things evil , Would men ...
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