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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... shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am , With fincere Respect and Gratitude , DEAR SIR , Your much obliged , and moft obedient Servant , WILLIAM ENFIELD . Warrington Academy , Stober 1 , 1774 . ADVERTISEMENT ...
... shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am , With fincere Respect and Gratitude , DEAR SIR , Your much obliged , and moft obedient Servant , WILLIAM ENFIELD . Warrington Academy , Stober 1 , 1774 . ADVERTISEMENT ...
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... shall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftinctnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which he speaks . WITHIN a certain compass of notes , above or below which articulation would be ...
... shall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftinctnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which he speaks . WITHIN a certain compass of notes , above or below which articulation would be ...
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... deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ; fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , B 4 is . is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 .
... deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ; fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , B 4 is . is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 .
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... shall grow dear friends , And interjoin their issues . So it falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that ...
... shall grow dear friends , And interjoin their issues . So it falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that ...
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... shall never want ruined villages . THE ftory fays , the fultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been de- ftroyed , and from that time forward confulted the good of his people . SPECTATOR ...
... shall never want ruined villages . THE ftory fays , the fultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been de- ftroyed , and from that time forward confulted the good of his people . SPECTATOR ...
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