An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind |
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... Honor thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the sorrows of thy mother . How canst thou recompense them the things which they have done for thee ? There is nothing of so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of ...
... Honor thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the sorrows of thy mother . How canst thou recompense them the things which they have done for thee ? There is nothing of so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of ...
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... honor and honesty seems o be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from luty , which the man of honor does for the sake of character . A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself ...
... honor and honesty seems o be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from luty , which the man of honor does for the sake of character . A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself ...
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... Honor is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a necessary substitute for it in societies which have none . It is a sort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cash of true ...
... Honor is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a necessary substitute for it in societies which have none . It is a sort of paper credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the sterling cash of true ...
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... honor Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover , that stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! -'Tis slander ! Whose edge is harper than a sword ; whose tongue Out - venoms alf the worms of Nile ...
... honor Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! How many then should cover , that stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! -'Tis slander ! Whose edge is harper than a sword ; whose tongue Out - venoms alf the worms of Nile ...
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... honor and decency , must when he is young , consider that he shall one day be old - and remember , when he is old , that he has once been young . He Avarice is always poor , but poor , by her own fault . The maxim which Periander of ...
... honor and decency , must when he is young , consider that he shall one day be old - and remember , when he is old , that he has once been young . He Avarice is always poor , but poor , by her own fault . The maxim which Periander of ...
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