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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... fools . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse - than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than serve in heaven , He rais'd a mortal to the skies , SHE ...
... fools . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse - than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than serve in heaven , He rais'd a mortal to the skies , SHE ...
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... fools . As to be perfectly just , is an attribute of the divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities , is the ... fool who fan- cied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though Though a man - may become ...
... fools . As to be perfectly just , is an attribute of the divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities , is the ... fool who fan- cied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though Though a man - may become ...
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William Enfield. drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds , to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but ...
William Enfield. drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds , to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but ...
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... fools is in their mouth , but the : tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a sweet life . Be in peace with many : nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand . Be not ...
... fools is in their mouth , but the : tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a sweet life . Be in peace with many : nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand . Be not ...
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... fools . The way to dusky death . Out , out brief candle ! Life's but a walking shadow , a poor player , That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an ideot , full of sound and fury ...
... fools . The way to dusky death . Out , out brief candle ! Life's but a walking shadow , a poor player , That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an ideot , full of sound and fury ...
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