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 7
... telling such things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of such as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in- their mouth , but the tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be ...
... telling such things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of such as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in- their mouth , but the tongue of the wise is in their heart . To labour , and to be ...
Pagina 16
... tell you what it is . The sultan would not be satisfied with such an answer , but forced him to repeat , word for word , every thing the owls had said . You must know , then , said the visier , that one of these owls has a son , and the ...
... tell you what it is . The sultan would not be satisfied with such an answer , but forced him to repeat , word for word , every thing the owls had said . You must know , then , said the visier , that one of these owls has a son , and the ...
Pagina 27
... tell the causes , which gradually brought the house of d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E * **** had fought up against his condition with great firm- ness ; wishing to preserve , and still show to the world , some little ...
... tell the causes , which gradually brought the house of d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E * **** had fought up against his condition with great firm- ness ; wishing to preserve , and still show to the world , some little ...
Pagina 31
... Savoy without shoes : how she had borne it , and how she had got supported , she could not tell - but God tempers the wind , said Maria , to the shorn lamb . Shorn indeed ! and to the quick , said I CHAP . XI . 31 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... Savoy without shoes : how she had borne it , and how she had got supported , she could not tell - but God tempers the wind , said Maria , to the shorn lamb . Shorn indeed ! and to the quick , said I CHAP . XI . 31 NARRATIVE PIECES .
Pagina 34
... tell ' em , if he knew , Whether the thing was green or blue . 66 " Sirs , " cries the umpire , cease your pother- " The creature's neither one nor t'other . " I caught the animal last night , " And view'd it o'er by candlelight : " I ...
... tell ' em , if he knew , Whether the thing was green or blue . 66 " Sirs , " cries the umpire , cease your pother- " The creature's neither one nor t'other . " I caught the animal last night , " And view'd it o'er by candlelight : " I ...
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anger army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP chill band country gentlemen cried daughter death divine earth elocution endeavour eternal ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls genius give glory Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago imagination kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind manner Maria means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble o'er pain Parliament passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise present privy counsellor proper racter replied Roman Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole wisdom wise words writing youth