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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... thou hast examined the truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of ...
... thou hast examined the truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of ...
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... thou been alive to have shared it with me , I thought by the accent , it had been an apostrophe to his child ; but it was to his afs , and to the very afs we had seen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's mifad- venture ...
... thou been alive to have shared it with me , I thought by the accent , it had been an apostrophe to his child ; but it was to his afs , and to the very afs we had seen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's mifad- venture ...
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... thou haft been a merciful master to him — Alas ! faid the mourner , I thought so , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise - I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him - they have ...
... thou haft been a merciful master to him — Alas ! faid the mourner , I thought so , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise - I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him - they have ...
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... 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 bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio— in all thy weakness and wanderings I would feek after ...
... 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 bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio— in all thy weakness and wanderings I would feek after ...
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... thou ftranger to offence , And inward ftorm ! He who yon fkies involves " In frowns of darkness , ever smiles on thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the fecret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies ...
... thou ftranger to offence , And inward ftorm ! He who yon fkies involves " In frowns of darkness , ever smiles on thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the fecret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies ...
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