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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 Seiten |
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... fortune is diftinguished by the luxuries of his table . BESIDES the immediate gratification which this kind of reading affords , it is attended with feveral COLLATERAL ADVANTAGES , which are perhaps of equal value . The exercise , which ...
... fortune is diftinguished by the luxuries of his table . BESIDES the immediate gratification which this kind of reading affords , it is attended with feveral COLLATERAL ADVANTAGES , which are perhaps of equal value . The exercise , which ...
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... fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours . ANGER may glance into the breaft of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently fuffer injuries , than thofe that are most ...
... fortune , unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favours . ANGER may glance into the breaft of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . NONE more impatiently fuffer injuries , than thofe that are most ...
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... fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that eftates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ...
... fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an undeserved dignity . O that eftates , degrees , and offices , Were not derived corruptly , that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ...
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... fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in fhallows , and in miferies . TO - MORROW , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last fyllable of recorded time , And all our ...
... fortune ; Omitted , all the voyage of their life Is bound in fhallows , and in miferies . TO - MORROW , and to - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last fyllable of recorded time , And all our ...
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... fortune which will never happen to any traveller , but a fentimental one , that I fhould be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition : I call it folemn - it was fo to me . THE Marquis entered the court with his whole family ...
... fortune which will never happen to any traveller , but a fentimental one , that I fhould be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition : I call it folemn - it was fo to me . THE Marquis entered the court with his whole family ...
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