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 William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 من الصفحات |
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... lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend fo much in armour , that one has nothing left to defend . DEFERENCE often fhrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy , as ...
... lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend fo much in armour , that one has nothing left to defend . DEFERENCE often fhrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy , as ...
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... lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when ...
... lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when ...
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... lefs than universal monarchy over the hearts of mankind . Luxury had many generals under him , who did him great fervice , as Pleasure , Mirth , Pomp , and Fafhi- Avarice was likewise very strong in his officers , being faithfully ...
... lefs than universal monarchy over the hearts of mankind . Luxury had many generals under him , who did him great fervice , as Pleasure , Mirth , Pomp , and Fafhi- Avarice was likewise very strong in his officers , being faithfully ...
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... lefs in force ; he took his fword from his fide - Here - faid he - take it ; and be trufty guardians of it , till better times put me in condi- tion to reclaim it . THE prefident accepted the Marquis's fword - he ftaid a few minutes to ...
... lefs in force ; he took his fword from his fide - Here - faid he - take it ; and be trufty guardians of it , till better times put me in condi- tion to reclaim it . THE prefident accepted the Marquis's fword - he ftaid a few minutes to ...
الصفحة 45
... lefs expence , Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe , And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . CHAP . D 4 W CHA P. XIV . • SIR BALAA M. HERE CHAP . XIII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
... lefs expence , Had taught thee honour , virtue , fenfe , And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , To govern men and guide the state . WHITEHEAD . CHAP . D 4 W CHA P. XIV . • SIR BALAA M. HERE CHAP . XIII . NARRATIVE PIECES . 45.
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