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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... please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . THE failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- ferving man , fhall ...
... please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . THE failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- ferving man , fhall ...
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... please . God grant a long life to fultan Mahmond ; whilst he reigns over us , we shall never want ruined villages . THE ftory fays , the Sultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been de ...
... please . God grant a long life to fultan Mahmond ; whilst he reigns over us , we shall never want ruined villages . THE ftory fays , the Sultan was fo touched with the fable , that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been de ...
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... not have thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully : You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he 1 This was he you . Any thing to please , 26 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... not have thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully : You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he 1 This was he you . Any thing to please , 26 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... please , fays the owner ; and alight- ing with his fon they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon their fhoulders over the bridge that led to the town , fo entertaining a fight ...
... please , fays the owner ; and alight- ing with his fon they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon their fhoulders over the bridge that led to the town , fo entertaining a fight ...
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... please the Fair ) ' The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : In Britain's Senate he a fent obtains , And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains . My Lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from ...
... please the Fair ) ' The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : In Britain's Senate he a fent obtains , And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains . My Lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from ...
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