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When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , the Earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , the Earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
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... stretch'd her speechless , o'er her lovely head Had innocently rolled . Meanwhile impatient Junio leap'd ashore , Regardless of the dæmons of the storm . Ah youth ! what woes too great for man to bear , Are ready to burst on thee !
... stretch'd her speechless , o'er her lovely head Had innocently rolled . Meanwhile impatient Junio leap'd ashore , Regardless of the dæmons of the storm . Ah youth ! what woes too great for man to bear , Are ready to burst on thee !
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All other arts may fail , but truth and integrity will carry a man through , and bear him out to the last . TILLOTSON . CH A P. I V. On Honour . EVERY VERY principal that is a motive to good actions ought to be encouraged , since men ...
All other arts may fail , but truth and integrity will carry a man through , and bear him out to the last . TILLOTSON . CH A P. I V. On Honour . EVERY VERY principal that is a motive to good actions ought to be encouraged , since men ...
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... bear him company . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport ...
... bear him company . Go , wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport ...
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Know thy own point : this kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee . Submit . - In'this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest at thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in ...
Know thy own point : this kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee . Submit . - In'this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest at thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r , Or in ...
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| Title | The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for Reading |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | F. Louis, 1804 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2018 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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