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... desirable to be admired as an eminent Orator , it is of much more importance to be refpected , as an able Lawyer , an ufeful Preacher , or a wife and upright statesman . b6 ESSAY E S S SAY II . ON READING WORKS OF ELOCUTION . XXXV.
... desirable to be admired as an eminent Orator , it is of much more importance to be refpected , as an able Lawyer , an ufeful Preacher , or a wife and upright statesman . b6 ESSAY E S S SAY II . ON READING WORKS OF ELOCUTION . XXXV.
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... wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of prosperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to ...
... wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of prosperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to ...
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... wife but by his own wifdom . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning , for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps ...
... wife but by his own wifdom . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning , for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps ...
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... and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to escape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole B 3 to CHAP . IV . 5 SELECT SENTENCES .
... and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to escape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole B 3 to CHAP . IV . 5 SELECT SENTENCES .
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... . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . RE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
... . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a fweet life . RE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
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