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 |
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... VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of tafte ; and we fhould as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in discourse , as we would puns , bad language , or false grammar . DE CHA P. VII . EFERENCE is the most complicate , the moft in ...
... VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of tafte ; and we fhould as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in discourse , as we would puns , bad language , or false grammar . DE CHA P. VII . EFERENCE is the most complicate , the moft in ...
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... virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues .. THE ...
... virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues .. THE ...
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... the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 2 Not www.4- BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 2 Not www.4- BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine iffues : nor nature never lends The ... virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX . SELECT SENTENCES .
... virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine iffues : nor nature never lends The ... virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX . SELECT SENTENCES .
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... virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it was ours . COWARDS die many times before their deaths ; - The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange that men ...
... virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it was ours . COWARDS die many times before their deaths ; - The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange that men ...
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