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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... thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew assuage the heat ? so is a word better than a gift . Lo ! is not a word better than a gift ? but both are with a gra- cious mau . Blame not before thou hast examined the truth ; under- stand ...
... thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew assuage the heat ? so is a word better than a gift . Lo ! is not a word better than a gift ? but both are with a gra- cious mau . Blame not before thou hast examined the truth ; under- stand ...
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... Thou hast one comfort , friend , said I , at least , in the loss of thy poor beast ; I am sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so , when .. he was alive - but now he is dead I think ...
... Thou hast one comfort , friend , said I , at least , in the loss of thy poor beast ; I am sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so , when .. he was alive - but now he is dead I think ...
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... thou hast got a hundred enemies ; and , till thou hast gone on , and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou wilt never be con- vinced it is so . I cannot suspect it in the man whom I esteem ...
... thou hast got a hundred enemies ; and , till thou hast gone on , and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou wilt never be con- vinced it is so . I cannot suspect it in the man whom I esteem ...
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... thee ! I can tell what thou wouldst de . Jaq . What , for a counter , would I do but good ? Duke . Most mischievous foul sin , in chiding sin ; For thou thyself hast been a libertine , And all th ' embossed sores and headed evils , That ...
... thee ! I can tell what thou wouldst de . Jaq . What , for a counter , would I do but good ? Duke . Most mischievous foul sin , in chiding sin ; For thou thyself hast been a libertine , And all th ' embossed sores and headed evils , That ...
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... thou art sham'd ; Rome , thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods . When went there by an age , since the great flood , But it was fam'd with more than with one man ? When could they say , till now , that talk'd of Rome , That her wide ...
... thou art sham'd ; Rome , thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods . When went there by an age , since the great flood , But it was fam'd with more than with one man ? When could they say , till now , that talk'd of Rome , That her wide ...
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