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 стор. |
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... , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing C 2 CHAP . 3 . 27 SELECT SENTENCES .
... , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing C 2 CHAP . 3 . 27 SELECT SENTENCES .
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... our filence , which cofts us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but 28 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... our filence , which cofts us nothing . It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but 28 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; - but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
... fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; - but great minds have but little admiration , because few things ...
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... . THE OLD MAN AND HIS ASS . WORLD . An old man and a little boy were driving an ass to the next market to fell . What a fool is this fellow ( fays a man upon the road ) to be trudging it on CHAP . 5 . 47 NARRATIVE PIECES . Labour World.
... . THE OLD MAN AND HIS ASS . WORLD . An old man and a little boy were driving an ass to the next market to fell . What a fool is this fellow ( fays a man upon the road ) to be trudging it on CHAP . 5 . 47 NARRATIVE PIECES . Labour World.
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... fool your mouth would stop ; " Sir , if my judgment you'll allow- I've seen and fure I ought to know " . So begs you'd pay a due fubmiffion , And acquiefce in his decifion . Two travellers of fuch a caft ,. As o'er Arabia's wilds they ...
... fool your mouth would stop ; " Sir , if my judgment you'll allow- I've seen and fure I ought to know " . So begs you'd pay a due fubmiffion , And acquiefce in his decifion . Two travellers of fuch a caft ,. As o'er Arabia's wilds they ...
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