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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... Gods . CHAP . V. LABOUR . SPECTATOR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daugh- ters in a little cottage , by the fide of a hill , at a great dis- tance from town . They were ...
... Gods . CHAP . V. LABOUR . SPECTATOR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daugh- ters in a little cottage , by the fide of a hill , at a great dis- tance from town . They were ...
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... hero in a very different manner . HERCULES , fays fhe , I offer myself to you because I know you are defcended from the Gods , and give proofs of that defeent defcent by your love to virtue , and application to NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
... hero in a very different manner . HERCULES , fays fhe , I offer myself to you because I know you are defcended from the Gods , and give proofs of that defeent defcent by your love to virtue , and application to NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
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... Gods have fet a price upon every real and noble pleasure . If you would gain the favour of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must ftudy to oblige them ; if you would be ...
... Gods have fet a price upon every real and noble pleasure . If you would gain the favour of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must ftudy to oblige them ; if you would be ...
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... Gods , beloved by their acquaintance , esteemed by their country , and , after the clofe of their labours , honoured by pofterity . We know , by the life of this memorable hero , to which of these two ladies he gave up his heart ; and I ...
... Gods , beloved by their acquaintance , esteemed by their country , and , after the clofe of their labours , honoured by pofterity . We know , by the life of this memorable hero , to which of these two ladies he gave up his heart ; and I ...
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... GOD help her ! poor damfel ! above a hundred maffes , faid the poftillion , have been said in the feveral parish churches . and convents around for her , but without effect ; we have ftill hopes , as fhe is fenfible for fhort intervals ...
... GOD help her ! poor damfel ! above a hundred maffes , faid the poftillion , have been said in the feveral parish churches . and convents around for her , but without effect ; we have ftill hopes , as fhe is fenfible for fhort intervals ...
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