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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... person in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . and we A LIAR begins with ...
... person in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . and we A LIAR begins with ...
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... PERSONS of great delicacy should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ; and this though a pro- pensity ...
... PERSONS of great delicacy should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ; and this though a pro- pensity ...
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... of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan- fary ? Sir , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majefty majefty a question or two . Who were the persons.
... of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan- fary ? Sir , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majefty majefty a question or two . Who were the persons.
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... persons that lodged in this house when it was 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 ...
... persons that lodged in this house when it was 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 ...
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... person would very often fide with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wife men of the world ftood neuter ; but alas , their numbers were not confiderable . At length , when these two potentates had ...
... person would very often fide with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wife men of the world ftood neuter ; but alas , their numbers were not confiderable . At length , when these two potentates had ...
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