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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Page 10
... better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the prosperity of an honeft man , I am best pleased with the confufion of a rascal . WHAT is often termed fhynefs , is nothing more than ...
... better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the prosperity of an honeft man , I am best pleased with the confufion of a rascal . WHAT is often termed fhynefs , is nothing more than ...
Page 25
... better company than the neighbouring villagers ; but having a defire of feeing the world , they forfook their companions and habitation , and determined to , travel . Labour went foberly along the road with Health on the right hand ...
... better company than the neighbouring villagers ; but having a defire of feeing the world , they forfook their companions and habitation , and determined to , travel . Labour went foberly along the road with Health on the right hand ...
Page 26
... man . One would not have thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully : You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he 1 This was he you . Any thing to please , 26 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... man . One would not have thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully : You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he 1 This was he you . Any thing to please , 26 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
Page 35
... better times put me in condition to reclaim it . THE prefident accepted the Marquis's fword - he ftaid a few minutes to fee it depofited in the archives of his house -and departed . THE Marquis and his whole family embarked the next day ...
... better times put me in condition to reclaim it . THE prefident accepted the Marquis's fword - he ftaid a few minutes to fee it depofited in the archives of his house -and departed . THE Marquis and his whole family embarked the next day ...
Page 37
... better fate did Maria deferve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause , put the pipe to her mouth and began the air ...
... better fate did Maria deferve , than to have her banns forbid , by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause , put the pipe to her mouth and began the air ...
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