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Any thing to please , lays the owner ; and alighting with his fon they tied the legs
of the ass together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon
their shoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was so entertaining a
fight ...
Any thing to please , lays the owner ; and alighting with his fon they tied the legs
of the ass together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon
their shoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was so entertaining a
fight ...
Page 211
снА Р. IV . Ο Ν N E GRO E S. WHEN HEN Tom , an ' please your honour , got to
the shop , there was nobody in it , but a poor negro girl , with a bunch of white
feathers slightly tied to the end of a long cane , fapping away fies -- not killing
them .
снА Р. IV . Ο Ν N E GRO E S. WHEN HEN Tom , an ' please your honour , got to
the shop , there was nobody in it , but a poor negro girl , with a bunch of white
feathers slightly tied to the end of a long cane , fapping away fies -- not killing
them .
Page 341
Pray let me save you the trouble , young gentleman , said I , taking up a fork for
the purpose , and offering him my chair to sit down upon by the fire , whilft I did it .
-- I believe , Sir , faid he , very modestly , I can please him beft myself .. I am sure
...
Pray let me save you the trouble , young gentleman , said I , taking up a fork for
the purpose , and offering him my chair to sit down upon by the fire , whilft I did it .
-- I believe , Sir , faid he , very modestly , I can please him beft myself .. I am sure
...
Page 342
-A foldier , an ' please your reverence , faid I , prays as often ( of his own accord )
as a parson ; -and when he ij fighting for his king , and for his own life , and for his
honour too , he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole ...
-A foldier , an ' please your reverence , faid I , prays as often ( of his own accord )
as a parson ; -and when he ij fighting for his king , and for his own life , and for his
honour too , he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole ...
Page 346
In a fortnight or three weeks , added my uncle Toby , smiling - he might march -
He will never march , an ' please your honour , in this world , said the corporal :
He will march ; said my uncle Toby , rifing up from the fide of the bed , with one ...
In a fortnight or three weeks , added my uncle Toby , smiling - he might march -
He will never march , an ' please your honour , in this world , said the corporal :
He will march ; said my uncle Toby , rifing up from the fide of the bed , with one ...
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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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