The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 Seiten |
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... CHAPTER IIf . CUSTOM is the plague of wife men , and the idol of fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the Divine Nature : to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the ...
... CHAPTER IIf . CUSTOM is the plague of wife men , and the idol of fools . As to be perfectly juft , is an attribute of the Divine Nature : to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the ...
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... CHAPTER IV . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffions , thinks worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . A good word is an eafy obligation : but not to speak ill requires only our filence ...
... CHAPTER IV . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffions , thinks worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . A good word is an eafy obligation : but not to speak ill requires only our filence ...
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... CHAPTER V. HONOURABLE age is not that which standeth in length of “ time , nor that is measured by number of years ; but wif- dom is the grey hair unto man , and unspotted life is old age . Wickedness , condemned by our own witness , is ...
... CHAPTER V. HONOURABLE age is not that which standeth in length of “ time , nor that is measured by number of years ; but wif- dom is the grey hair unto man , and unspotted life is old age . Wickedness , condemned by our own witness , is ...
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... CHAPTER VIII . WHAT a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving how ex- prefs and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehenfion how like a god ! If to do , were as easy as to ...
... CHAPTER VIII . WHAT a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving how ex- prefs and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehenfion how like a god ! If to do , were as easy as to ...
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... CHAPTER IX . Он , world , the flippery turns ! friends now fast sworn , Whofe double bofoms feem to wear one heart , Whofe hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Infeperable ...
... CHAPTER IX . Он , world , the flippery turns ! friends now fast sworn , Whofe double bofoms feem to wear one heart , Whofe hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Infeperable ...
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