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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... reason , because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and difin- terested people in the world of one religion , but that they should talk together every day . MEN are grateful in the fame ...
... reason , because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and difin- terested people in the world of one religion , but that they should talk together every day . MEN are grateful in the fame ...
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... reason dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father fent him from these genial ifles , To where old Thames with conscious pride surveys Green Eton , foft abode of every Muse . Each claffic beauty he foon made his own ; And foon fam'd Ifis faw ...
... reason dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father fent him from these genial ifles , To where old Thames with conscious pride surveys Green Eton , foft abode of every Muse . Each claffic beauty he foon made his own ; And foon fam'd Ifis faw ...
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... reason to fear mortification ; and there are times in which the wife and the knowing are willing to receive praise without the labour of deferving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to defcend , and the most active to be at ...
... reason to fear mortification ; and there are times in which the wife and the knowing are willing to receive praise without the labour of deferving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to defcend , and the most active to be at ...
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... reason and prudence have bid you pursue ; but return to the charge , perfift , perfevere , and you will find most things attainable that are poffible . A yielding , timid meeknefs is always abufed and infulted by the unjust and the ...
... reason and prudence have bid you pursue ; but return to the charge , perfift , perfevere , and you will find most things attainable that are poffible . A yielding , timid meeknefs is always abufed and infulted by the unjust and the ...
Page 98
... reason that arifes not from formal and logical deductions , but from a fort of intuitive faculty in the foul , which distinguishes by imme- diate perception : a kind of innate fagacity , that in many of its properties feems very much to ...
... reason that arifes not from formal and logical deductions , but from a fort of intuitive faculty in the foul , which distinguishes by imme- diate perception : a kind of innate fagacity , that in many of its properties feems very much to ...
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