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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pagina's |
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... Virtue . XVII . On Verfification . XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom , ib . 95 ib . 97 ib .. 100 Armstrong . 101 104 Mafon . 107 XIX . Against Indolence ; an Epiftle . XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman . XXI . On the Miseries of Human Life ...
... Virtue . XVII . On Verfification . XVIII . Leffons on Wisdom , ib . 95 ib . 97 ib .. 100 Armstrong . 101 104 Mafon . 107 XIX . Against Indolence ; an Epiftle . XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman . XXI . On the Miseries of Human Life ...
Pagina vii
... Virtue our highest Interest . III . The fame Subject . Holland . 122 Harris . 128 ibid . 130 IV . On the Immortality of the Soul . Spectator . 131 V. On the Being of a God . Young . 134 BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . CHAP . I. Junius ...
... Virtue our highest Interest . III . The fame Subject . Holland . 122 Harris . 128 ibid . 130 IV . On the Immortality of the Soul . Spectator . 131 V. On the Being of a God . Young . 134 BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . CHAP . I. Junius ...
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... virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being ftrictly obferved , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
... virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being ftrictly obferved , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly ...
Pagina 5
... virtues , praise fuch is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applause ; for be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but this may 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 applause ; for be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but this may to escape cenfure , a man must pafs his whole ...
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... virtues by which it ought to be obtained . Titles of honour conferred upon fuch as have no perfonal merit , are at best but the royal stamp fet upon base metal . THOUGH an honourable title may be conveyed to pofte- rity , yet the ...
... virtues by which it ought to be obtained . Titles of honour conferred upon fuch as have no perfonal merit , are at best but the royal stamp fet upon base metal . THOUGH an honourable title may be conveyed to pofte- rity , yet the ...
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