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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... Virtue Ibid . 112 XVII . On Verfification Ibid . 115 XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom Armstrong 116 XIX . Against Indolence ; an Epistle 119 XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman - Mafon 122 XXI . On the Miferies of Human Life Themfon 124 XXII ...
... Virtue Ibid . 112 XVII . On Verfification Ibid . 115 XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom Armstrong 116 XIX . Against Indolence ; an Epistle 119 XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman - Mafon 122 XXI . On the Miferies of Human Life Themfon 124 XXII ...
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... Virtue 174 177 184 190 Price 194 XIII . The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar Shakspeare 195 XIV . Gloucefter's Speech to the Nobles BOOK Ibid . 1,6 VI . S. Harris 198 DIALOGUE 1. On Happiness II . The fame Subject III . On ...
... Virtue 174 177 184 190 Price 194 XIII . The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar Shakspeare 195 XIV . Gloucefter's Speech to the Nobles BOOK Ibid . 1,6 VI . S. Harris 198 DIALOGUE 1. On Happiness II . The fame Subject III . On ...
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... virtue , and if there be any praife , think on thefe things * . On the contrary , interrogative fentences are ter- minated by the fufpending paufe ; as in the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long ...
... virtue , and if there be any praife , think on thefe things * . On the contrary , interrogative fentences are ter- minated by the fufpending paufe ; as in the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long ...
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... virtue itself hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly obferved , it ceases to be virtue . Ir is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
... virtue itself hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly obferved , it ceases to be virtue . Ir is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
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... virtues , praife : fuch is the force of ill will , and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to escape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole B ...
... virtues , praife : fuch is the force of ill will , and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to escape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole B ...
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