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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... poor man being down is thruft away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him : the poor man flipt and they rebuked him ; he spoke wifely , and could ...
... poor man being down is thruft away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him : the poor man flipt and they rebuked him ; he spoke wifely , and could ...
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... poor man I take it for granted there would be as much generofity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in fermons or ferious discourses , are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleafing to those who come only for amusement ...
... poor man I take it for granted there would be as much generofity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in fermons or ferious discourses , are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleafing to those who come only for amusement ...
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... poor men's cottages princes , palaces . He is a good divine who follows his own instruc- tions ; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching . MEN's evil manners live in ...
... poor men's cottages princes , palaces . He is a good divine who follows his own instruc- tions ; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching . MEN's evil manners live in ...
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... poor player , That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . A CHAP . I. 18 Book . I. SELECT ...
... poor player , That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of found and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES . A CHAP . I. 18 Book . I. SELECT ...
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... poor old father is walking on foot ? The father , upon this rebuke , took down his boy from the afs , and mounted himself . Do you fee ( fays a third ) how the lazy old knave rides along upon his beaft , while his poor little boy is ...
... poor old father is walking on foot ? The father , upon this rebuke , took down his boy from the afs , and mounted himself . Do you fee ( fays a third ) how the lazy old knave rides along upon his beaft , while his poor little boy is ...
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