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ON HONOUR . i 1 EVERY principle that is a motive to good actions ought to he
encouraged , fince men are of fo different a make , that the same principle does
not work equally upon all minds . What some men are prompted to by conscience
...
ON HONOUR . i 1 EVERY principle that is a motive to good actions ought to he
encouraged , fince men are of fo different a make , that the same principle does
not work equally upon all minds . What some men are prompted to by conscience
...
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1 fears , the man of honour fcorns to do an ill action . The latter considers vice as
something that is beneath him , ' the other as something that is offensive to the
Divine Being , The one as what is unbecoming , the other as what is forbidden .
1 fears , the man of honour fcorns to do an ill action . The latter considers vice as
something that is beneath him , ' the other as something that is offensive to the
Divine Being , The one as what is unbecoming , the other as what is forbidden .
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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 William Enfield. have called themselves men of honour ,
that ...
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 William Enfield. have called themselves men of honour ,
that ...
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-Your honour's roquelaure , replied the corporal , has not once been had on ,
since the night before honour received your wound , when we mounted guard in
the trenches before the gate of St. Nicholas and besides it is so cold and rainy a ...
-Your honour's roquelaure , replied the corporal , has not once been had on ,
since the night before honour received your wound , when we mounted guard in
the trenches before the gate of St. Nicholas and besides it is so cold and rainy a ...
Page 341
I am sure , said I , his honour will ... I never , in the longest march , said the
corporal , had so great a mind to my dinner , as I had to cry with him for company :
- What could be the matter with me , an please your honour ? Nothing in the
world ...
I am sure , said I , his honour will ... I never , in the longest march , said the
corporal , had so great a mind to my dinner , as I had to cry with him for company :
- What could be the matter with me , an please your honour ? Nothing in the
world ...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1797 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2012 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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