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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... towards perfpicuity , to preferve , during the course of a sentence , unity of person and scene ; avoiding , as much as poffible , all abrupt tranfitions from one one perfon , or fubject , to another . But WORKS OF TASTE . Iv.
... towards perfpicuity , to preferve , during the course of a sentence , unity of person and scene ; avoiding , as much as poffible , all abrupt tranfitions from one one perfon , or fubject , to another . But WORKS OF TASTE . Iv.
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... person who commends you , is to be confidered before you fet a value on his esteem . The wife man applauds him whom he thinks moft virtuous , the rest of the world him who is most wealthy . THE temperate man's pleasures are durable ...
... person who commends you , is to be confidered before you fet a value on his esteem . The wife man applauds him whom he thinks moft virtuous , the rest of the world him who is most wealthy . THE temperate man's pleasures are durable ...
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... PERSONS of great delicacy fhould know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ; and this through a pro- I ...
... PERSONS of great delicacy fhould know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ; and this through a pro- I ...
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... person between them . To which I fhall only add , that fince the difcarding of the counsellors above- mentioned , Avarice fupplies Luxury in the room of Plenty , as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty . SPECTATOR . CHAP . IV ...
... person between them . To which I fhall only add , that fince the difcarding of the counsellors above- mentioned , Avarice fupplies Luxury in the room of Plenty , as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty . SPECTATOR . CHAP . IV ...
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... person pitied her ; and next , that her goat had ftolen his handker- chief , and the had beat him for the theft - he had washed it , fhe faid , in the brook , and kept it ever fince in her pocket , to restore it to him in cafe fhe ...
... person pitied her ; and next , that her goat had ftolen his handker- chief , and the had beat him for the theft - he had washed it , fhe faid , in the brook , and kept it ever fince in her pocket , to restore it to him in cafe fhe ...
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