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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... truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
... truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . Is thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and he not hasty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
Page 10
... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the 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 ...
... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the 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 ...
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... truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfhood . VIRTUE 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 ...
... truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfhood . VIRTUE 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 ...
Page 12
... 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 fancy happiness in those schemes SELECT ...
... 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 fancy happiness in those schemes SELECT ...
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... truth and sentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but affectation , witticism , and conceit ? WE CHA P ...
... truth and sentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but affectation , witticism , and conceit ? WE CHA P ...
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