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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... bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brafs ; the death thereof is an evil death . My fon , blemish not thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any ...
... bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brafs ; the death thereof is an evil death . My fon , blemish not thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any ...
Page 17
... bound in fhallows , and in miferies . TO - MORROW , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last fyllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools , The The way to ...
... bound in fhallows , and in miferies . TO - MORROW , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last fyllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools , The The way to ...
Page 168
... bound , into our hands . Be not terrified with an idle fhew , and the glitter of filver and gold , which can neither protect nor wound . In the very ranks of the enemy we fhall find our own bands . The Britons will ac- knowledge their ...
... bound , into our hands . Be not terrified with an idle fhew , and the glitter of filver and gold , which can neither protect nor wound . In the very ranks of the enemy we fhall find our own bands . The Britons will ac- knowledge their ...
Page 172
... bound to him during his life but neither that bond , nor the reason for which we chofe him , will hold , as to the choice of a fuccef- for . Henry Plantagenet is now grown up to an age of ma- turity , and every way qualified to fucceed ...
... bound to him during his life but neither that bond , nor the reason for which we chofe him , will hold , as to the choice of a fuccef- for . Henry Plantagenet is now grown up to an age of ma- turity , and every way qualified to fucceed ...
Page 195
... bound by it no less than ourselves . It has the fame authority in all worlds that it has in this . The further any being is ad- vanced in excellence and perfection , the greater , is his at- tachment to it , and the more is he under its ...
... bound by it no less than ourselves . It has the fame authority in all worlds that it has in this . The further any being is ad- vanced in excellence and perfection , the greater , is his at- tachment to it , and the more is he under its ...
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