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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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... himself to be deceived by her favours . ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently fuffer injuries , than those that are most forward in doing them . By taking revenge ...
... himself to be deceived by her favours . ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently fuffer injuries , than those that are most forward in doing them . By taking revenge ...
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... himself . WE fhould take a prudent care for the future , but so as to enjoy the prefent . It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to - day , because we may happen to be so to - morrow . • To mourn without meafure is folly ; not to mourn ...
... himself . WE fhould take a prudent care for the future , but so as to enjoy the prefent . It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to - day , because we may happen to be so to - morrow . • To mourn without meafure is folly ; not to mourn ...
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... himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an estate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world . CHAP . IV . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffions , thinks worse than he speaks ...
... himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an estate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world . CHAP . IV . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffions , thinks worse than he speaks ...
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... himself upon it after the manner of the eastern nations . He had not been long in this posture , before he was discovered by fome of the guards , who asked him what was his business in that place ? The Dervise told them , he intended to ...
... himself upon it after the manner of the eastern nations . He had not been long in this posture , before he was discovered by fome of the guards , who asked him what was his business in that place ? The Dervise told them , he intended to ...
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... himself . And who , fays the Dervise , will be here after you ? The king answered , The young prince his fon . Ah , Sire , " faid the Dervife , " a house " that changes its inhabitants so often , and receives fuch a perpetual fucceffion ...
... himself . And who , fays the Dervise , will be here after you ? The king answered , The young prince his fon . Ah , Sire , " faid the Dervife , " a house " that changes its inhabitants so often , and receives fuch a perpetual fucceffion ...
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