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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... thousand intimate acquaintances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one friend , think yourself happy . When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will ...
... thousand intimate acquaintances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one friend , think yourself happy . When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will ...
Pagina 5
... thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , " Were I Alexander ; I ...
... thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made , said , " Were I Alexander ; I ...
Pagina 7
... thousand , Be not confident in a plain way . Let reason go before every enterprise , and counsel before every action . CHAP . VI . THE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in euring the follies , prejudices , and false opinions ...
... thousand , Be not confident in a plain way . Let reason go before every enterprise , and counsel before every action . CHAP . VI . THE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in euring the follies , prejudices , and false opinions ...
Pagina 45
... thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? Upon her breathless corse himself he threw , And to her clay cold lips , with trembling haste , Ten thousand kisses gave . He strove to speak : Nor words he found he clasp'd her in his ...
... thousand pangs , which tore the lover's breast ? Upon her breathless corse himself he threw , And to her clay cold lips , with trembling haste , Ten thousand kisses gave . He strove to speak : Nor words he found he clasp'd her in his ...
Pagina 74
... thousand vexa- tions , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readi- Hess of expedients . • No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want ...
... thousand vexa- tions , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readi- Hess of expedients . • No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want ...
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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