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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... they are re- fentful . YOUNG men are fubtle arguers : the cloke of honour covers all their faults , as that of paffion , all their follies . C 4 ECONOMY ECONOMY is no difgrace ; it is better living on CHAP . VI . SELECT SENTENCES . 9.
... they are re- fentful . YOUNG men are fubtle arguers : the cloke of honour covers all their faults , as that of paffion , all their follies . C 4 ECONOMY ECONOMY is no difgrace ; it is better living on CHAP . VI . SELECT SENTENCES . 9.
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... honour and honesty , feems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falsehood appear like truth , A LIAR 10 ( Book D. SELECT ...
... honour and honesty , feems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falsehood appear like truth , A LIAR 10 ( Book D. SELECT ...
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... HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean but a neceffary substitute for it , in focieties who have none ; it is a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the fterling cafh of true ...
... HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean but a neceffary substitute for it , in focieties who have none ; it is a fort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the fterling cafh of true ...
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... that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 . SELECT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
... that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How How many then should cover that stand bare ! How 16 . SELECT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
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... honoured by those who are young . In a word , my followers are favoured by the gods , beloved by their acquaintance , efteemed by their country , and , after the close of their labours , honoured by pofterity . We know , by the life of ...
... honoured by those who are young . In a word , my followers are favoured by the gods , beloved by their acquaintance , efteemed by their country , and , after the close of their labours , honoured by pofterity . We know , by the life of ...
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