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 is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... sense is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleasing ...
... sense is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleasing ...
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... sense and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble descent would then indeed be a valia . ble privilege . " Truth is always consistent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at ...
... sense and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble descent would then indeed be a valia . ble privilege . " Truth is always consistent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at ...
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... sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superstition is the spleen of the soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task be undertakes : for he must be forced to invent twen- ty more to maintain ...
... sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superstition is the spleen of the soul . He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task be undertakes : for he must be forced to invent twen- ty more to maintain ...
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... sense , and an indifference to common observations . The higher character a person supports , the more he should regard his minutest actions . Every person insensibly fixes upon some degree of refinement in his discourse , some measure ...
... sense , and an indifference to common observations . The higher character a person supports , the more he should regard his minutest actions . Every person insensibly fixes upon some degree of refinement in his discourse , some measure ...
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... sense and exalted sense are not half so valua ble as common sense . There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold , will be every day at a loss for want of ready change . Learning is ...
... sense and exalted sense are not half so valua ble as common sense . There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold , will be every day at a loss for want of ready change . Learning is ...
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Acmit army Avarice Balaam behold bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar CELADON CHAP cheerfulness Dæmon danger daugh daughter death divine doth earth endeavour eternal Ev'n ev'ry fate father fear fool fortune FRAM Gauls give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart heav'n honour hope hour humour IAGO king labour learning live look Lord MACD mankind Maria marriage means mind modesty motley fool Muse nature Nature's never noble nymph o'er once pain passion Patricians peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise pride Romans sapadillas Scythians sense shade SHAKSPEARE SIR JOHN smiles SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit STERL suavitèr sweet Syphax tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought Tis green truth twas uncle Toby virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth