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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... present . It is no part of wisdom to be miferable to - day , because we may happen to be so to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . Some would be thought to do great things , who are but ...
... present . It is no part of wisdom to be miferable to - day , because we may happen to be so to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . Some would be thought to do great things , who are but ...
Page 89
... present their intereft , and treat those perfon as vifionaries , who dare ftand up in a corrupt age , for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , interest , or experience of such men , make them very often useful ...
... present their intereft , and treat those perfon as vifionaries , who dare ftand up in a corrupt age , for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , interest , or experience of such men , make them very often useful ...
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... all things to all men ; he seems to have no opinion of his own , and fervilely adopts the present opinion of the prefent per- fon ; fon ; he infinuates himself only the into esteem of CHAP . VII . DIDACTIC PIECES . 95.
... all things to all men ; he seems to have no opinion of his own , and fervilely adopts the present opinion of the prefent per- fon ; fon ; he infinuates himself only the into esteem of CHAP . VII . DIDACTIC PIECES . 95.
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... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN H VINDICATED . ' EAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what fpirits know , Or who could fuffer being here below ...
... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN H VINDICATED . ' EAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what fpirits know , Or who could fuffer being here below ...
Page 148
... present . Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplishments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly , and drop at once into a ftate of ...
... present . Were a human foul thus at a ftand in her accomplishments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly , and drop at once into a ftate of ...
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