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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... moft delightful . 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 ...
... moft delightful . 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 ...
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... moft current among mankind is flattery ; the only benefit of which is , that by hearing what we are not , we may be instructed what we ought to be . The character of the perfon who commends you , is to be confidered before you fet a I ...
... moft current among mankind is flattery ; the only benefit of which is , that by hearing what we are not , we may be instructed what we ought to be . The character of the perfon who commends you , is to be confidered before you fet a I ...
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... moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have been picking at . The eye of the critic is often like a microscope , made fo very fine and nice , that it discovers the atoms , grains ...
... moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have been picking at . The eye of the critic is often like a microscope , made fo very fine and nice , that it discovers the atoms , grains ...
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... , if they were not cherished by our virtues . The fenfe of death is moft in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporeal fufferance , feels a pang as great As $ 6 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES . to.
... , if they were not cherished by our virtues . The fenfe of death is moft in apprehenfion ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporeal fufferance , feels a pang as great As $ 6 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES . to.
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... moft delicious mufic , which is the praife of one's felf ; nor faw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pafs away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up ...
... moft delicious mufic , which is the praife of one's felf ; nor faw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pafs away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are hoarding up ...
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