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 |
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Page 47
... fecures his foul . Behold Sir Balaam now a man of spirit , Afcribes his gettings to his parts and merit ; What late he call'd a Bleffing , now was Wit , And God's good Providence , a lucky Hit . Things change their titles , as our ...
... fecures his foul . Behold Sir Balaam now a man of spirit , Afcribes his gettings to his parts and merit ; What late he call'd a Bleffing , now was Wit , And God's good Providence , a lucky Hit . Things change their titles , as our ...
Page 67
... , and whofe unchangeablenefs will fecure us in this happiness to all eternity . SUCH confiderations , which every one fhould perpetually cherish E 3 cherish in his thoughts , will banish from us all CHAP . II . 67 DIDACTIC PIECES .
... , and whofe unchangeablenefs will fecure us in this happiness to all eternity . SUCH confiderations , which every one fhould perpetually cherish E 3 cherish in his thoughts , will banish from us all CHAP . II . 67 DIDACTIC PIECES .
Page 69
... fecure much the plainer and easier , way of dealing in the world : it hath lefs of trouble and dif- ficulty , of entanglement and perplexity , of danger and ha- zard in it : it is the shortest and nearest way to our end , car- rying us ...
... fecure much the plainer and easier , way of dealing in the world : it hath lefs of trouble and dif- ficulty , of entanglement and perplexity , of danger and ha- zard in it : it is the shortest and nearest way to our end , car- rying us ...
Page 125
... fecure him from contempt , and maintain him in the poffeffion of his juft authority . Nor does any thing commonly leffen us more in the eyes of others , than our -own paffion . It often expofeth us to the contempt and de- rifion of ...
... fecure him from contempt , and maintain him in the poffeffion of his juft authority . Nor does any thing commonly leffen us more in the eyes of others , than our -own paffion . It often expofeth us to the contempt and de- rifion of ...
Page 137
... fecure the fuccefs , if our own courage does not fail us . And fhall thofe warriors , who have ever been fo brave when foreign enemies were to be fubdued , or when conquests were to be made to gratify the ambition and avarice of Tarquin ...
... fecure the fuccefs , if our own courage does not fail us . And fhall thofe warriors , who have ever been fo brave when foreign enemies were to be fubdued , or when conquests were to be made to gratify the ambition and avarice of Tarquin ...
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affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beft blifs bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar caufe Dæmons defire eafy eyes fafe faid my uncle fame fecure feems feen fenfe ferve fervice fhade fhall fhew fhould fide fince firft fleep fmiles fome fomething fool foon foul fpeak fpirit FRAM ftand ftate ftill ftrange fubject fuch fuffer fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houfe IAGO intereft itſelf juft king laft lefs Long Parliaments Lord MACD meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature never o'er obferve occafion paffion pafs pain perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praife prefent purfue raiſe reafon refpect reft rife Scythians SHAKESPEAR ſhall ſhe SIR JOHN ſpeak ſtate STERL Syphax Theana thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe wife yourſelf