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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... deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ; fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , B 4 is . is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 .
... deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ; fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , B 4 is . is not a word better than a gift ? but CHAP . V. SELECT SENTENCES . 7 .
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... thou haft examined the truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . Ir thou wouldest get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of ...
... thou haft examined the truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . Ir thou wouldest get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of ...
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... thou been alive to have shared it with me . I thought by the accent , it had been an apoftrophe to his child ; but it was to his afs , and to the very afs we had seen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's mifad venture ...
... thou been alive to have shared it with me . I thought by the accent , it had been an apoftrophe to his child ; but it was to his afs , and to the very afs we had seen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's mifad venture ...
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... THOU haft one comfort , friend , faid I , at leaft , in the lofs of thy poor beaft ; I am fure thou hast been a merciful mafter to him - Alas ! faid the mourner , I thought fo , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwife ...
... THOU haft one comfort , friend , faid I , at leaft , in the lofs of thy poor beaft ; I am fure thou hast been a merciful mafter to him - Alas ! faid the mourner , I thought fo , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwife ...
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... Thou shalt not leave me , Sylvio , " said she . I looked in Maria's eyes , and faw fhe was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as fhe uttered them , the tears trickled down her cheeks . I SAT down ...
... Thou shalt not leave me , Sylvio , " said she . I looked in Maria's eyes , and faw fhe was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as fhe uttered them , the tears trickled down her cheeks . I SAT down ...
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