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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... replied Alexander , " were I Parmenio . " Nobility is to be considered only as an imaginary dis- tinction , unless accompanied with the practice of those ge- nerous virtues , by which it ought to be obtained . Titles of honour conferred ...
... replied Alexander , " were I Parmenio . " Nobility is to be considered only as an imaginary dis- tinction , unless accompanied with the practice of those ge- nerous virtues , by which it ought to be obtained . Titles of honour conferred ...
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... replied , his ancestors . And who , says the dervise , was the last person that lodged here ? The king replied , his father . And who is it , says the dervise , that lodges here at present ? The king told him , that it was he himself ...
... replied , his ancestors . And who , says the dervise , was the last person that lodged here ? The king replied , his father . And who is it , says the dervise , that lodges here at present ? The king told him , that it was he himself ...
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... replied , instead of fifty I will give her five hundred , if you please . God grant a long life to Sultan Mahmoud ; while he reigns over us we shall never want ruined villages . ... The story says , the sultan was so touched with the ...
... replied , instead of fifty I will give her five hundred , if you please . God grant a long life to Sultan Mahmoud ; while he reigns over us we shall never want ruined villages . ... The story says , the sultan was so touched with the ...
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... replied , that he looked upon Plenty ( the first minister of his antagonist ) to be a much more de- structive counsellor than Poverty , for that he was perpetually suggesting pleasures , banishing all the necessary cautions against want ...
... replied , that he looked upon Plenty ( the first minister of his antagonist ) to be a much more de- structive counsellor than Poverty , for that he was perpetually suggesting pleasures , banishing all the necessary cautions against want ...
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... replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You and your son are better able to carry the poor beast , than he you . Any thing to please , says the owner ; and alighting with his son , they tied the legs of the ass ...
... replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You and your son are better able to carry the poor beast , than he you . Any thing to please , says the owner ; and alighting with his son , they tied the legs of the ass ...
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