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 ... |
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... reft of the world him who is most wealthy . THE temperate man's pleafures are durable , because they are regular ; and all his life is calm and ferene , because it is innocent . A GOOD A GOOD man will love himself too well to lofe ...
... reft of the world him who is most wealthy . THE temperate man's pleafures are durable , because they are regular ; and all his life is calm and ferene , because it is innocent . A GOOD A GOOD man will love himself too well to lofe ...
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... reft , whilft the horfes were getting ready ; as I continued fitting in the poft - chaife , I could fee and hear over their heads . He said he had come laft from Spain , where he had been from the furthest borders of Franconia ; and had ...
... reft , whilft the horfes were getting ready ; as I continued fitting in the poft - chaife , I could fee and hear over their heads . He said he had come laft from Spain , where he had been from the furthest borders of Franconia ; and had ...
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... reft . All therefore are at fome hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon eafy terms , and who will relieve them from folitude , without condemning them to vigilance and caution . We are most inclined to love when ...
... reft . All therefore are at fome hour or another fond of companions whom they can entertain upon eafy terms , and who will relieve them from folitude , without condemning them to vigilance and caution . We are most inclined to love when ...
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... reft , And , in proportion as it bleffes , bleft ; Draw to one point , and to one centre bring Beaft , Man , or Angel , Servant , Lord , or King . For Forms of Government let fools conteft ; Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft : For ...
... reft , And , in proportion as it bleffes , bleft ; Draw to one point , and to one centre bring Beaft , Man , or Angel , Servant , Lord , or King . For Forms of Government let fools conteft ; Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft : For ...
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... reft , More rich , more wife ; but who infers from hence That fuch are happier , fhocks all common sense . Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their Happiness : But mutual wants this Happiness increase ; All ...
... reft , More rich , more wife ; but who infers from hence That fuch are happier , fhocks all common sense . Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their Happiness : But mutual wants this Happiness increase ; All ...
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