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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... never find a friend to his mind .. HONOUR thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother : how canft thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in ...
... never find a friend to his mind .. HONOUR thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother : how canft thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in ...
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... never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and dif- interested people in the world of one religion , but that they fhould talk together every ...
... never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and dif- interested people in the world of one religion , but that they fhould talk together every ...
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... excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskil- ful , moft mischievous . A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in C 5 the the wrong ; which is but faying , in other CHAP . VII . ) SELECT SENTENCES .
... excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskil- ful , moft mischievous . A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in C 5 the the wrong ; which is but faying , in other CHAP . VII . ) SELECT SENTENCES .
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... never task'd for speech . THE cloud - clapt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall diffolve ; And , like the baseless fabric of a vision , Leave not a wreck ...
... never task'd for speech . THE cloud - clapt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall diffolve ; And , like the baseless fabric of a vision , Leave not a wreck ...
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... never lends The smallest fcruple of her excellence , But , like a thrifty goddefs , the determines Herself the glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . WHAT ftronger breaft - plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that ...
... never lends The smallest fcruple of her excellence , But , like a thrifty goddefs , the determines Herself the glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . WHAT ftronger breaft - plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that ...
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