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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... live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquefts were made on either fide . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the fame person between ...
... live as good friends and confederates , and to share between them whatever conquefts were made on either fide . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the fame person between ...
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... lives like other folks , He takes his chirping pint , and cracks his jokes : " Live like yourfelf , " was foon my Lady's word And lo ! two puddings fmok'd upon the board . Asleep and naked as an Indian lay , An honeft factor ftole a gem ...
... lives like other folks , He takes his chirping pint , and cracks his jokes : " Live like yourfelf , " was foon my Lady's word And lo ! two puddings fmok'd upon the board . Asleep and naked as an Indian lay , An honeft factor ftole a gem ...
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... dews appear . But oh his fifter's jealous care , ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to say , My EDWIN ! live for me . Now homeward as the hopeless went , The churchyard path 3 Now 50 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... dews appear . But oh his fifter's jealous care , ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to say , My EDWIN ! live for me . Now homeward as the hopeless went , The churchyard path 3 Now 50 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
Page 57
... Live , and live happy ; fometimes think of me : By night , by day , you ftill engag'd my care ; " And next to God , you now my thoughts employ : " Accept of thisMy little all I give ; " Would it were larger " . Nature could no more She ...
... Live , and live happy ; fometimes think of me : By night , by day , you ftill engag'd my care ; " And next to God , you now my thoughts employ : " Accept of thisMy little all I give ; " Would it were larger " . Nature could no more She ...
Page 66
... It is a kind of acquiefcence in the state wherein we are placed , and a secret approbation of the Divine Will in his conduct towards man . A MAN A MAN , who uses his best endeavours to live 66 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
... It is a kind of acquiefcence in the state wherein we are placed , and a secret approbation of the Divine Will in his conduct towards man . A MAN A MAN , who uses his best endeavours to live 66 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
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