The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... passing from one part to another , without any change of person . Shakespeare's « All the World's a Stage , » etc. and in his description of the Queen of the Fairies , afford examples of this . Indeed every sentence which is read or ...
... passing from one part to another , without any change of person . Shakespeare's « All the World's a Stage , » etc. and in his description of the Queen of the Fairies , afford examples of this . Indeed every sentence which is read or ...
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... pass over a Transgression . Money , like manure , doth no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches except in the distribution : the rest is all conceit . A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly , use ...
... pass over a Transgression . Money , like manure , doth no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches except in the distribution : the rest is all conceit . A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly , use ...
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... passing it over , he is su- perior . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man , than this , that when the injury began on his part , the kindness should begin on ours . The ...
... passing it over , he is su- perior . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man , than this , that when the injury began on his part , the kindness should begin on ours . The ...
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... pass his whole life with- out saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . ? When Darius offered Alexander ten thou- sand talents to divide Asia equally with him . he answered , the Earth cannot bear two suns nor Asia two kings . Parmenio ...
... pass his whole life with- out saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . ? When Darius offered Alexander ten thou- sand talents to divide Asia equally with him . he answered , the Earth cannot bear two suns nor Asia two kings . Parmenio ...
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... pass- port from Pleasure , there to dwell with Hap- piness , Virtue , and the Gods . CHA P. V. Labour . SPECTATOR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters , in a little ...
... pass- port from Pleasure , there to dwell with Hap- piness , Virtue , and the Gods . CHA P. V. Labour . SPECTATOR . LABOUR , the offspring of Want , and the mother of Health and Contentment , lived with her two daughters , in a little ...
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