An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Mind and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which is Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind |
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... who dares to die . 12. There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by B securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being. SELECT SENTENCES. ...
... who dares to die . 12. There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by B securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being. SELECT SENTENCES. ...
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... souls ; without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . V. 1. HONOURABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the gray ...
... souls ; without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . V. 1. HONOURABLE age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the gray ...
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... soul . 7. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . 8. Some people will never learn any thing ; for this rea- son , because they understand ...
... soul . 7. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . 8. Some people will never learn any thing ; for this rea- son , because they understand ...
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... soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ; For our bad neighbours make us early stirrers : Which is both healthful , and good husbandry ; Besides , they are our outward consciences , And preachers to us all ...
... soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ; For our bad neighbours make us early stirrers : Which is both healthful , and good husbandry ; Besides , they are our outward consciences , And preachers to us all ...
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... soul and subdues every irregular appetite . 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspection ; of her female acquaintance especially . She has remarked , that what renders women prone to detraction , is talking of their own sex ...
... soul and subdues every irregular appetite . 7. Of the absent she never talks but with circumspection ; of her female acquaintance especially . She has remarked , that what renders women prone to detraction , is talking of their own sex ...
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