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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... uncle Beaufort , and myself , With all the learned council of the realm , Studied fo long , fat in the council - house Early and late , debating to and fro , How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe ? And was his Highness in his ...
... uncle Beaufort , and myself , With all the learned council of the realm , Studied fo long , fat in the council - house Early and late , debating to and fro , How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe ? And was his Highness in his ...
Page 211
... uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ' please your honour , faid the corporal ( doubtingly . ) I AM not much verfed , corporal , quoth my uncle Toby , in things of that kind ; but I fuppofe , God would not leave him without one , any ...
... uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ' please your honour , faid the corporal ( doubtingly . ) I AM not much verfed , corporal , quoth my uncle Toby , in things of that kind ; but I fuppofe , God would not leave him without one , any ...
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... uncle Toby- -ONLY , cried the corporal , shaking his head , because she has no one to stand up for her ' Tis that very thing , Trim , quoth my uncle Toby , which recommends her to protection , and her brethren with her ; - ' tis the ...
... uncle Toby- -ONLY , cried the corporal , shaking his head , because she has no one to stand up for her ' Tis that very thing , Trim , quoth my uncle Toby , which recommends her to protection , and her brethren with her ; - ' tis the ...
Page 337
... uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's house in town , in order to lay fome of the finest fieges to fome of the finest for tified cities in Europe - when my uncle Toby was one evening getting his fupper , with Trim ...
... uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's house in town , in order to lay fome of the finest fieges to fome of the finest for tified cities in Europe - when my uncle Toby was one evening getting his fupper , with Trim ...
Page 338
... uncle Toby ; and thou shalt drink the poor gen- tleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , -and take a cou- ple of bottles with my fervice , and tell him he is heartily welcome to them , and to a dozen more if they will do him good ...
... uncle Toby ; and thou shalt drink the poor gen- tleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , -and take a cou- ple of bottles with my fervice , and tell him he is heartily welcome to them , and to a dozen more if they will do him good ...
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