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. To which are Prefixed Two Essays |
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... divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse thau he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heav'n . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She ...
... divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse thau he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heav'n . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She ...
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... divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was - ever cast down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours .. Anger may glance into the ...
... divine nature ; to be so to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was - ever cast down with the injuries of fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours .. Anger may glance into the ...
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... divine who follows his own instruc- tions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching . & The web of our life is of a mingled 10 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... divine who follows his own instruc- tions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than to be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching . & The web of our life is of a mingled 10 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... divine . A narrow brook , by rushy banks conceal'd , Runs in a bottom , and divides the field ; Oaks intersperse it , that had once a head , But now wear crests of oven - wood instead ; And where the land slopes to it's wat'ry bourn ...
... divine . A narrow brook , by rushy banks conceal'd , Runs in a bottom , and divides the field ; Oaks intersperse it , that had once a head , But now wear crests of oven - wood instead ; And where the land slopes to it's wat'ry bourn ...
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... Divine will in his conduct towards man . A man , who uses his best endeavours to live according to the dictates of virtue and right reason , has two perpetual sources of cheerfulness in the consideration of his own na- ture , and of ...
... Divine will in his conduct towards man . A man , who uses his best endeavours to live according to the dictates of virtue and right reason , has two perpetual sources of cheerfulness in the consideration of his own na- ture , and of ...
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