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 v
... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED .... 13. ON THE ORDER OF NATURE .... Ib . 83 26. THE PLEASURES ARISING FROM A CULTIVATED IMAGINATION .. Ib . X06 44. THE ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION AND TYRANNY ............... .. ....... Ib . 84 27 ...
... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED .... 13. ON THE ORDER OF NATURE .... Ib . 83 26. THE PLEASURES ARISING FROM A CULTIVATED IMAGINATION .. Ib . X06 44. THE ORIGIN OF SUPERSTITION AND TYRANNY ............... .. ....... Ib . 84 27 ...
Pagina xxviii
... present the BENEFITS which are to be expected from this kind of reading ; and to suggest certain RULES for conduct- ing it in the most advantageous manner . The agreeable EMPLOYMENT , which reading works of taste affords the active ...
... present the BENEFITS which are to be expected from this kind of reading ; and to suggest certain RULES for conduct- ing it in the most advantageous manner . The agreeable EMPLOYMENT , which reading works of taste affords the active ...
Pagina xxxix
... present state of modern languages , particularly the English , stability and uniformity are of more consequence than enlargement . It is not in the power of fashion , to justify the affectation of introducing foreign words and phrases ...
... present state of modern languages , particularly the English , stability and uniformity are of more consequence than enlargement . It is not in the power of fashion , to justify the affectation of introducing foreign words and phrases ...
Pagina 3
... present . It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to day , because we may happen to be so to morrow . " To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , insensibility . 1 Some would be thought to do great things , who are but ...
... present . It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to day , because we may happen to be so to morrow . " To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , insensibility . 1 Some would be thought to do great things , who are but ...
Pagina 7
... present , but are providing to live another time . Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superstition is the ...
... present , but are providing to live another time . Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superstition is the ...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ... William Enfield Vizualizare completă - 1808 |
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