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 |
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... should talk together every day . MEN are grateful in the fame degree that they are re- fentful . YOUNG menare fubtle arguers ; the cloak of honour covers all their faults , at that of paffion , all their follies . B 5 ECONOMY ECONOMY is ...
... should talk together every day . MEN are grateful in the fame degree that they are re- fentful . YOUNG menare fubtle arguers ; the cloak of honour covers all their faults , at that of paffion , all their follies . B 5 ECONOMY ECONOMY is ...
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... should regard his minutest actions . EVERY perfon infenfibly fixes upon fome degree of refine- ment in his discourse , some measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions ...
... should regard his minutest actions . EVERY perfon infenfibly fixes upon fome degree of refine- ment in his discourse , some measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions ...
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... should be confidered as a part of taste fhould as much avoid deceit , or sinister meanings in discourse as we would puns , bad language , or falfe grammar . CHA P. VII . ; EFERENCE is the moft complicate , the most in- direct , and the ...
... should be confidered as a part of taste fhould as much avoid deceit , or sinister meanings in discourse as we would puns , bad language , or falfe grammar . CHA P. VII . ; EFERENCE is the moft complicate , the most in- direct , and the ...
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... should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ; and this though a pro- pensity penfity of human nature to ...
... should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of the determination ; and this though a pro- pensity penfity of human nature to ...
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... should teach us , There's divinity that shapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . THE Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of ...
... should teach us , There's divinity that shapes our ends , Rough - hew them how we will . THE Poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of ...
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