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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... lives like other folks . Then you will pass into Africa : WILL pafs , did I say ? IN expreffing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few words , the weight of the fenti- ment should be accompanied with a ...
... lives like other folks . Then you will pass into Africa : WILL pafs , did I say ? IN expreffing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few words , the weight of the fenti- ment should be accompanied with a ...
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... live upon con- tentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and ...
... live upon con- tentedly . A CONTENTED mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and ...
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... live at prefent , but are providing to live another time . PARTY is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine fenfe , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
... live at prefent , but are providing to live another time . PARTY is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine fenfe , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor ...
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... lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . HONOUR is but a ...
... lives and limbs in the difpute ; but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . HONOUR is but a ...
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... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished ...
... live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . THE web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished ...
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