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 ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 pagina's |
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... Virtue 3 The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar Sha . 197 Tacitus 168 14 Gloucefter's Speech lb. 198 1 CHAP I On Happiness BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . СНАР . 16 On Virtue 17 On Verfification 18 Leffons of Wisdom 19 Against Epiftle PAGE ...
... Virtue 3 The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar Sha . 197 Tacitus 168 14 Gloucefter's Speech lb. 198 1 CHAP I On Happiness BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . СНАР . 16 On Virtue 17 On Verfification 18 Leffons of Wisdom 19 Against Epiftle PAGE ...
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... he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than ferve in Heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . Emphafis likewife ferves to exprefs fome particular meaning not immediately 16 AN ESSAY ON СНАР On Virtue.
... he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than ferve in Heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . Emphafis likewife ferves to exprefs fome particular meaning not immediately 16 AN ESSAY ON СНАР On Virtue.
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... virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
... virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
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... virtues , praise fuch is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to escape cenfure , a man must pafs his whole ...
... virtues , praise fuch is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to escape cenfure , a man must pafs his whole ...
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... virtues by will , and fettle his fenfe and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble defcent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege . Truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help ...
... virtues by will , and fettle his fenfe and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble defcent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege . Truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help ...
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