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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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... glory through her wide domain ; . Their various tastes in diff'rent arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly urion in one mass shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am , With ...
... glory through her wide domain ; . Their various tastes in diff'rent arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly urion in one mass shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am , With ...
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... glory to pass over a transgression . Money , like manure , does no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches , except in the distribution : the rest is all conceit . A wise man will desire no more than what he may get ...
... glory to pass over a transgression . Money , like manure , does no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches , except in the distribution : the rest is all conceit . A wise man will desire no more than what he may get ...
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... glory of man . No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours . Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . None ...
... glory of man . No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours . Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . None ...
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... glory in the character , discovers at the same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it possible to expect , that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not so much as take warning ? Although men are accused for not ...
... glory in the character , discovers at the same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it possible to expect , that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not so much as take warning ? Although men are accused for not ...
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... glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just : And he but naked , though lock'd up in steel , Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted ...
... glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just : And he but naked , though lock'd up in steel , Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted ...
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