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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... Pain arifing from virtuous Emotions attended with Pleasure Ibid . 125 Young 127 Akenfide 128 XXV . On Tafte Ibid . 132 XXVI . The Pleasures arising from a cultivated Imagination Ibid . 134 XXVII . Slavery . Darwin 136 BOOK IV ...
... Pain arifing from virtuous Emotions attended with Pleasure Ibid . 125 Young 127 Akenfide 128 XXV . On Tafte Ibid . 132 XXVI . The Pleasures arising from a cultivated Imagination Ibid . 134 XXVII . Slavery . Darwin 136 BOOK IV ...
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... pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty ...
... pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty ...
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... pains to rake into , much less to remove . HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a neceffary substitute for it , in focieties , who have none : it is a fort of paper - credit , with which men are obliged to trade ...
... pains to rake into , much less to remove . HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a neceffary substitute for it , in focieties , who have none : it is a fort of paper - credit , with which men are obliged to trade ...
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... PAIN . HERE were two families which from the beginning TH of the world were as oppofite to each other as light and darkness . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was ...
... PAIN . HERE were two families which from the beginning TH of the world were as oppofite to each other as light and darkness . The one of them lived in heaven , and the other in hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was ...
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... PAIN were no fooner met in their new habitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take poffeffion of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part ofthat species which was given up to them . But upon ...
... PAIN were no fooner met in their new habitation , but they immediately agreed upon this point , that Pleasure should take poffeffion of the virtuous , and Pain of the vicious part ofthat species which was given up to them . But upon ...
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