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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Page lvi
... seems to be no fufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained fome authority , that a writer , for the fake of dif- tinctness , should confine himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be easy to ...
... seems to be no fufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained fome authority , that a writer , for the fake of dif- tinctness , should confine himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be easy to ...
Page 10
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like truth , A LIAR 10 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like truth , A LIAR 10 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
Page 16
... seems to me most strange that men should fear ; . Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come .. THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil ,. Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes ...
... seems to me most strange that men should fear ; . Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come .. THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil ,. Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes ...
Page 24
... very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated between them by 24 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in fending them among mankind . To remedy therefore therefore this inconvenience , it was ftipulated between them by 24 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
Page 37
... seems her only confolation - fhe has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help ...
... seems her only confolation - fhe has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that fervice upon it almost night and day . THE poftillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help ...
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