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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... pleasures , banishing all the neceffary cautions against want , and confequently undermining those principles on which the government of Avarice was founded . At laft , in order to an accommodation , they agreed upon this preliminary ...
... pleasures , banishing all the neceffary cautions against want , and confequently undermining those principles on which the government of Avarice was founded . At laft , in order to an accommodation , they agreed upon this preliminary ...
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... PLEASURE AND PAIN . " THERE were two families , which from the beginning of the world were as oppofite to each other as light and dark- nefs . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest descendant of the ...
... PLEASURE AND PAIN . " THERE were two families , which from the beginning of the world were as oppofite to each other as light and dark- nefs . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest descendant of the ...
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... PLEASURE and PAIN were no sooner met in their new habitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take poffeffion of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them ...
... PLEASURE and PAIN were no sooner met in their new habitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take poffeffion of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part of that species which was given up to them ...
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... pleasure , and out of the reach of pain , and remove you from all the noife and difquietude of bufinefs . The affairs of either war or peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment fhall be to make your life easy ...
... pleasure , and out of the reach of pain , and remove you from all the noife and difquietude of bufinefs . The affairs of either war or peace shall have no power to disturb you . Your whole employment fhall be to make your life easy ...
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... Pleasure here broke in upon her discourse : You fee , faid fhe , Her- cules , by her own confeffion , the way to her pleasures is long and difficult , whereas that which I propose is short and easy . Alas ! faid the other lady , whofe ...
... Pleasure here broke in upon her discourse : You fee , faid fhe , Her- cules , by her own confeffion , the way to her pleasures is long and difficult , whereas that which I propose is short and easy . Alas ! faid the other lady , whofe ...
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