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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... truth ; un- derstand first , and then rebuke . IF thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own : occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
... truth ; un- derstand first , and then rebuke . IF thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own : occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
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... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy perfon in their ... truth , A LIAR 10 ( Book D. SELECT SENTENCES . Corporal Trim's Eloquence The Man of Rofs.
... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy perfon in their ... truth , A LIAR 10 ( Book D. SELECT SENTENCES . Corporal Trim's Eloquence The Man of Rofs.
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... truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in dif- course , as we would puns , bad language , or falfe ...
... truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in dif- course , as we would puns , bad language , or falfe ...
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... truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine , they will repent of the determination ; and this through a pro- penfity penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes 12 ...
... truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine , they will repent of the determination ; and this through a pro- penfity penfity of human nature to fancy happiness in those schemes 12 ...
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... truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in a word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but affectation , witticism , and conceit ? CHAP ...
... truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in a word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but affectation , witticism , and conceit ? CHAP ...
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