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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... leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest stress on conjunctive particles , and other words of fecondary importance . These ...
... leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest stress on conjunctive particles , and other words of fecondary importance . These ...
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... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that course of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the most ...
... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that course of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the most ...
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... Leave not a wreck behind : we are fuch stuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's divinity ...
... Leave not a wreck behind : we are fuch stuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's divinity ...
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... of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan- fary ? Sir , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majefty majefty a question or two . Who were the persons.
... of the Dervise , asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan- fary ? Sir , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majefty majefty a question or two . Who were the persons.
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... leaves twisted a little fantastically on one fide - she was beautiful ; and if ever I felt the full force of an honeft heart- ach , it was the moment I saw her- GOD help her ! poor damfel ! above a hundred maffes , faid the poftillion ...
... leaves twisted a little fantastically on one fide - she was beautiful ; and if ever I felt the full force of an honeft heart- ach , it was the moment I saw her- GOD help her ! poor damfel ! above a hundred maffes , faid the poftillion ...
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