Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading & Speaking |
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... praise to the peerless supreme Majesty of heaven , and confession and deprecation , are to be uttered with all that humility of looks and gesture , which can exhibit the most profound selfabasement and annihila- tion , before One ...
... praise to the peerless supreme Majesty of heaven , and confession and deprecation , are to be uttered with all that humility of looks and gesture , which can exhibit the most profound selfabasement and annihila- tion , before One ...
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... praise , is a slave to every one who has a tongue for detraction . Always to indulge our appetites , is to extinguish them . Abstain , that you may enjoy . To have your enemy in your power , and yet to do him good , is the greatest ...
... praise , is a slave to every one who has a tongue for detraction . Always to indulge our appetites , is to extinguish them . Abstain , that you may enjoy . To have your enemy in your power , and yet to do him good , is the greatest ...
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... praise of one's self ; nor saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment and remorse for old ...
... praise of one's self ; nor saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up anguish , torment and remorse for old ...
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... praise , are , especially at your age , among the marks of virtue . Think not that any affluence of fortune , or any elevation of rank , exempts you from the duties of ap- plication and industry . Industry is the law of our be- ing ; it ...
... praise , are , especially at your age , among the marks of virtue . Think not that any affluence of fortune , or any elevation of rank , exempts you from the duties of ap- plication and industry . Industry is the law of our be- ing ; it ...
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... praises from the same fountain from which he had been aspersed . His capital passions were ambition and love of pleasure ; which he indulged in their turns , to the greatest excess : yet the first was always predominant ; to which he ...
... praises from the same fountain from which he had been aspersed . His capital passions were ambition and love of pleasure ; which he indulged in their turns , to the greatest excess : yet the first was always predominant ; to which he ...
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