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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... thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be 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 ...
... thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be 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 ...
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... thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my own bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio— in all thy weakness and wanderings I would feek after thee , and bring thee back - when the fun went down I would ...
... thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldft eat of my own bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio— in all thy weakness and wanderings I would feek after thee , and bring thee back - when the fun went down I would ...
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... thee can only bind them up for ever . STERNE . XII . OFT CHAP . THE CAMELION . FT it has been my lot to mark A proud , conceited , talking spark , With eyes , that hardly ferv'd at most To guard their master'gainst a poft : Yet round ...
... thee can only bind them up for ever . STERNE . XII . OFT CHAP . THE CAMELION . FT it has been my lot to mark A proud , conceited , talking spark , With eyes , that hardly ferv'd at most To guard their master'gainst a poft : Yet round ...
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... thee honour , virtue , sense , · And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . СНАР . } CHA P. XIV . SIR BA LA A M. WHERE CHAP . XIII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
... thee honour , virtue , sense , · And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . СНАР . } CHA P. XIV . SIR BA LA A M. WHERE CHAP . XIII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
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... thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the fecret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies harmless ; and that very voice , " Which thunders terror thro ' the guilty hear , " With tongues of feraphs ...
... thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the fecret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies harmless ; and that very voice , " Which thunders terror thro ' the guilty hear , " With tongues of feraphs ...
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