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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... never yet been analyzed ; and perhaps it is not within the reach of human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to execute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a ...
... never yet been analyzed ; and perhaps it is not within the reach of human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to execute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a ...
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... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Profperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful converfation . Complaifance ...
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Profperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful converfation . Complaifance ...
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... never can be wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learn- ing ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
... never can be wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learn- ing ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
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... never find a friend to his mind . Honour thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother : how can thou recompenfe them the things they have done for thee ? There is nothing fo much worth , as a mind well in ...
... never find a friend to his mind . Honour thy father with thy whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother : how can thou recompenfe them the things they have done for thee ? There is nothing fo much worth , as a mind well in ...
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... never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every thing too foon . There is nothing wanting to make all rational and difin- terested people in the world of one religion , but that they fhould talk together every ...
... never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every thing too foon . There is nothing wanting to make all rational and difin- terested people in the world of one religion , but that they fhould talk together every ...
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