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 EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pagini |
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Pagina xxxi
... fortune is distinguished by the luxuries of his table . Beside the immediate gratification , which this kind of read- ing affords , it is attended with several COLLATERAL AD- VANTAGES , which are perhaps of equal value . The ex- ercise ...
... fortune is distinguished by the luxuries of his table . Beside the immediate gratification , which this kind of read- ing affords , it is attended with several COLLATERAL AD- VANTAGES , which are perhaps of equal value . The ex- ercise ...
Pagina 3
... fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours .. Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . None more impatiently suffer injuries , than those that are most ...
... fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours .. Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . None more impatiently suffer injuries , than those that are most ...
Pagina 13
... fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly ; that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ...
... fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that estates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly ; that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ...
Pagina 14
... fortune : Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows , and in miseries . To morrow , and to morrow , and to morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our ...
... fortune : Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows , and in miseries . To morrow , and to morrow , and to morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our ...
Pagina 28
... fortune , which will never hap- pen to any traveller but a sentimental one , that I should be at Rennes at the very time of his solemn requisition ; I call it solemn - it was so to me . The marquis entered the court with his whole ...
... fortune , which will never hap- pen to any traveller but a sentimental one , that I should be at Rennes at the very time of his solemn requisition ; I call it solemn - it was so to me . The marquis entered the court with his whole ...
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