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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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... hast examined the truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some inen are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy ...
... hast examined the truth ; under- stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some inen are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy ...
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... hast one comfort , friend , said I , at least , in the loss of thy poor beast ; I am sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise - I ...
... hast one comfort , friend , said I , at least , in the loss of thy poor beast ; I am sure thou hast been a merciful master to him . - Alas ! said the mourner , I thought so , when he was alive - but now he is dead I think otherwise - I ...
Page 79
... hast got a hundred enemies ; and , till thou hast gone on , and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou wilt never be con- vinced it is so . I cannot suspect it in the man whom I esteem ...
... hast got a hundred enemies ; and , till thou hast gone on , and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou wilt never be con- vinced it is so . I cannot suspect it in the man whom I esteem ...
Page 184
... hast been a libertine , And all th ' embossed sores and headed evils , That thou with license of free foot hast caught , Wouldst thou disgorge into the gen'ral world . Jaq . Why , who cries out on pride , That can therein tax any ...
... hast been a libertine , And all th ' embossed sores and headed evils , That thou with license of free foot hast caught , Wouldst thou disgorge into the gen'ral world . Jaq . Why , who cries out on pride , That can therein tax any ...
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... hast lost the breed of noble bloods . When went there by an age , since the great flood , But it was fam'd with more than with one man ? When could they say , till now , that talk'd of Rome , That her wide walls encompass'd but one man ...
... hast lost the breed of noble bloods . When went there by an age , since the great flood , But it was fam'd with more than with one man ? When could they say , till now , that talk'd of Rome , That her wide walls encompass'd but one man ...
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