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 |
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... friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ferves for the law of life , and not for the oftentation of science . WITHOUT CHA P. II . a friend the ...
... friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ferves for the law of life , and not for the oftentation of science . WITHOUT CHA P. II . a friend the ...
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... friendship , I will be open and fincere with you , and must lay down this as an ef- tablished truth , that there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour . The Gods have fet a price upon every real and ...
... friendship , I will be open and fincere with you , and must lay down this as an ef- tablished truth , that there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour . The Gods have fet a price upon every real and ...
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... friendships . The ban- quets of my votaries are never coftly , yet always delicious ; for none eat or drink at them who are not invited by hunger and thirst . Their flumbers are found , and their wakings cheerful . My young men have the ...
... friendships . The ban- quets of my votaries are never coftly , yet always delicious ; for none eat or drink at them who are not invited by hunger and thirst . Their flumbers are found , and their wakings cheerful . My young men have the ...
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... friendship heighten'd by the mutual wish . Th ' enchanting hope , and fympathetic glow , Beam'd from the mutual eye . Devoting all To love , cach was to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone ...
... friendship heighten'd by the mutual wish . Th ' enchanting hope , and fympathetic glow , Beam'd from the mutual eye . Devoting all To love , cach was to each a dearer self ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Of giving joy . Alone ...
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... Friendship , fatisfied with noife , Fandango , ball and rout ! Blush , when I tell you how a bird , A prison , with a friend , preferr'd To liberty without . COWPER . CHAP . CHA P. XXIII . PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED . A FABLE 66 1 ...
... Friendship , fatisfied with noife , Fandango , ball and rout ! Blush , when I tell you how a bird , A prison , with a friend , preferr'd To liberty without . COWPER . CHAP . CHA P. XXIII . PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED . A FABLE 66 1 ...
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