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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... WISDOM ......... .. Armstrong , 92 5. ON GOOD HÜMOUR ....... Rambler , 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE : An Epistle 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD Davies , 94 ....... Ib . 7399. ELEGY TO A YOUNG - NOBLEMAN , 7. ON THE ADVANTAGES OF UNITING ...
... WISDOM ......... .. Armstrong , 92 5. ON GOOD HÜMOUR ....... Rambler , 70 19. AGAINST INDOLENCE : An Epistle 6. ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD Davies , 94 ....... Ib . 7399. ELEGY TO A YOUNG - NOBLEMAN , 7. ON THE ADVANTAGES OF UNITING ...
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... wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent , and habit will render it the most delightful . CHAP . III . CUSTOM is the plague of wise SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
... wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent , and habit will render it the most delightful . CHAP . III . CUSTOM is the plague of wise SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
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... wisdom to be miserable to day , because we may happen to be so to morrow . " To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , insensibility . 1 Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like ...
... wisdom to be miserable to day , because we may happen to be so to morrow . " To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , insensibility . 1 Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like ...
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... wisdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness hereafter , large as our desires , and lasting as our immortal souls without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it the ...
... wisdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness hereafter , large as our desires , and lasting as our immortal souls without this the highest state of life is insipid , and with it the ...
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... wisdom , as he grew in years . He fondly deen'd he could perceive the growth Of goodness and of learning shooting up , Like the young offspring of the shelter'd hop , Unusual progress in a summer's night . He call'd him home , with ...
... wisdom , as he grew in years . He fondly deen'd he could perceive the growth Of goodness and of learning shooting up , Like the young offspring of the shelter'd hop , Unusual progress in a summer's night . He call'd him home , with ...
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