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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... himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be easy to fhow , by examples , that this fashionable method of re- ducing fentences to one standard , whatever it may add to the neatness and elegance of style ...
... himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be easy to fhow , by examples , that this fashionable method of re- ducing fentences to one standard , whatever it may add to the neatness and elegance of style ...
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... , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime so shameful , that the man was never yet found , who would acknowledge himself guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
... , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime so shameful , that the man was never yet found , who would acknowledge himself guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
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... himself to be deceived by her favours . ANGER may glance into the breaft of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently fuffer injuries , than thofe that are most forward in doing them . By taking revenge ...
... himself to be deceived by her favours . ANGER may glance into the breaft of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently fuffer injuries , than thofe that are most forward in doing them . By taking revenge ...
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... himself . WE should take a prudent care for the future , but so as to enjoy the present . It is no part of wisdom to be miferable to - day , because we may happen to be fo to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn ...
... himself . WE should take a prudent care for the future , but so as to enjoy the present . It is no part of wisdom to be miferable to - day , because we may happen to be fo to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn ...
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... himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an eftate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt the beft principles in the world . CHA P. IV . AN angry man who fuppresses his passions , thinks worse than he speaks ...
... himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an eftate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt the beft principles in the world . CHA P. IV . AN angry man who fuppresses his passions , thinks worse than he speaks ...
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