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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... telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understanding are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content ...
... telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understanding are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content ...
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... approached the tree pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the ful- tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but but dare not tell you what it is .. The 20 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II ,
... approached the tree pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the ful- tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but but dare not tell you what it is .. The 20 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II ,
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... tell you what it is .. The Sultan would not be fatisfied with fuch an answer , but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid . You must know then , faid the vifier , that one of thefe owls has a fon , and the ...
... tell you what it is .. The Sultan would not be fatisfied with fuch an answer , but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid . You must know then , faid the vifier , that one of thefe owls has a fon , and the ...
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... tell the causes which gradually brought the house d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up againft his condition with grear firmnefs ; wifhing to preferve and ftil fhew to the world fome little fragments of ...
... tell the causes which gradually brought the house d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up againft his condition with grear firmnefs ; wifhing to preferve and ftil fhew to the world fome little fragments of ...
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... tell - but God tempers the wind , faid Maria , to the fhorn lamb . SHORN indeed ! and to the quick , faid I ; and waft thou in my own land , where I have a cottage , I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my own ...
... tell - but God tempers the wind , faid Maria , to the fhorn lamb . SHORN indeed ! and to the quick , faid I ; and waft thou in my own land , where I have a cottage , I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my own ...
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