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 Elocution |
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... ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trou- ble . Forfake not an old ...
... ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trou- ble . Forfake not an old ...
Page 39
... ftand bare ! How many be commanded that command ! Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's ( now ...
... ftand bare ! How many be commanded that command ! Oh , who can hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's ( now ...
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... ftand the just mean between bashfulness and impudence . I shall conclude with obferving , that as the fame man may be both modeft and assured ; fo it is also poffible for the fame perfon to be both impudent and bashful . We have ...
... ftand the just mean between bashfulness and impudence . I shall conclude with obferving , that as the fame man may be both modeft and assured ; fo it is also poffible for the fame perfon to be both impudent and bashful . We have ...
Page 98
... ftand up in a corrupt age for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , intereft , or experience of fuch men , make them very often useful in all parties , and at all times . But whatever wealth and dignities they ...
... ftand up in a corrupt age for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , intereft , or experience of fuch men , make them very often useful in all parties , and at all times . But whatever wealth and dignities they ...
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... ftand Around the death - bed of their dearest friends And point the parting anguish . - Thought fond man Of these , and all the thousand nameless ills , That one inceffant ftruggle render life , One scene of toil , of suffering , and of ...
... ftand Around the death - bed of their dearest friends And point the parting anguish . - Thought fond man Of these , and all the thousand nameless ills , That one inceffant ftruggle render life , One scene of toil , of suffering , and of ...
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