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 William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ... |
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... please without adulation ; and is equally re- mote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . THE failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- serving man ...
... please without adulation ; and is equally re- mote from an infipid complaifance , and a low familiarity . THE failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- serving man ...
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... so unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than What a fool is this s - fellow ( fays trudging it on foot with his son , he he you . Any thing to please , says the 26 BOOK IF . NARRATIVE PIECES ..
... so unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than What a fool is this s - fellow ( fays trudging it on foot with his son , he he you . Any thing to please , says the 26 BOOK IF . NARRATIVE PIECES ..
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... please , says the owner ; and alight- ing with his fon , they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon their shoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was fo entertaining a ...
... please , says the owner ; and alight- ing with his fon , they tied the legs of the afs together , and by the help of a pole endeavoured to carry him upon their shoulders over the bridge that led to the town . This was fo entertaining a ...
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... please the Fair ) The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains ,, And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains . My Lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from ...
... please the Fair ) The well - bred cuckolds in St. James's air : In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains ,, And one more Penfioner St. Stephen gains . My Lady falls to play ; fo bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from ...
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... please . SPECTATOR . CHA P. III . ON SINCERITY . TRU RUTH and fincerity have all the advantages of ap- pearance , and many more . If the fhew of any thing be good for any thing , I am sure the reality is better ; for why does any man ...
... please . SPECTATOR . CHA P. III . ON SINCERITY . TRU RUTH and fincerity have all the advantages of ap- pearance , and many more . If the fhew of any thing be good for any thing , I am sure the reality is better ; for why does any man ...
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