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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... same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not so much as take warning ? ALTHOUGH men are accused for not knowing their own weakness , yet perhaps as few ...
... same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not so much as take warning ? ALTHOUGH men are accused for not knowing their own weakness , yet perhaps as few ...
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... SAME SUBJECT . ALL men purfue Good , and would be happy , if they knew how ; not happy for minutes , and miferable for hours ; but happy , if poffible , through every part of their existence . existence . Either therefore there is a ...
... SAME SUBJECT . ALL men purfue Good , and would be happy , if they knew how ; not happy for minutes , and miferable for hours ; but happy , if poffible , through every part of their existence . existence . Either therefore there is a ...
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... same mind ; and as this house is chosen by the free and unbiassed voice of the people in general , if this choice were so often renewed , we might expect , that this houfe would be as wavering and as un- steady as the people ufually are ...
... same mind ; and as this house is chosen by the free and unbiassed voice of the people in general , if this choice were so often renewed , we might expect , that this houfe would be as wavering and as un- steady as the people ufually are ...
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... SAME SUBJECT . HARRIS . BRUTUS perifhed untimely , and Cæfar did no more .-- Thefe words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and cheerfully bade me good - mor- row . I could not return his compliment with ...
... SAME SUBJECT . HARRIS . BRUTUS perifhed untimely , and Cæfar did no more .-- Thefe words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and cheerfully bade me good - mor- row . I could not return his compliment with ...
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