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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... reft , and are , on this account , diftin- guifhed by the forcible manner in which they are uttered . Thus in the fentence * : Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day - light in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual ferenity ...
... reft , and are , on this account , diftin- guifhed by the forcible manner in which they are uttered . Thus in the fentence * : Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day - light in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual ferenity ...
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... reft ; and all should unite to produce one regular whole . Denique fit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the ...
... reft ; and all should unite to produce one regular whole . Denique fit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the ...
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... a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real ufe of riches , except in the diftribution ; the reft is all conceit . B A WISE A WISE man will defire no more than what he BOOK I Select Sentences.
... a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real ufe of riches , except in the diftribution ; the reft is all conceit . B A WISE A WISE man will defire no more than what he BOOK I Select Sentences.
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... reft , whilft the horses were getting ready ; as I continued fitting in the poft - chaife , I could fee and hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had ...
... reft , whilft the horses were getting ready ; as I continued fitting in the poft - chaife , I could fee and hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had ...
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... reft , All pair'd , and each pair built a neft . But though the birds were thus in haste , The leaves came on not quite so fast , And destiny , that fometimes bears An aspect ftern on man's affairs , Not altogether fmil'd on theirs ...
... reft , All pair'd , and each pair built a neft . But though the birds were thus in haste , The leaves came on not quite so fast , And destiny , that fometimes bears An aspect ftern on man's affairs , Not altogether fmil'd on theirs ...
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