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 are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pages |
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... seems to be no sufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained some authority , that a writer , for the sake of distinctness , should confine himself to the ex- pression of a single thought in each sentence . It would be easy to ...
... seems to be no sufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained some authority , that a writer , for the sake of distinctness , should confine himself to the ex- pression of a single thought in each sentence . It would be easy to ...
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... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . Aliar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . Aliar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
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... seems owing to simplicity . Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former in a natural man- ner ; in word and phrase simple , perspicuous , and incapa- ble of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
... seems owing to simplicity . Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former in a natural man- ner ; in word and phrase simple , perspicuous , and incapa- ble of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
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... seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this ... seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this ... seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... seems to me most strange , that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . There is some soul of goodness in things evil ,, Would men observingly distil it out ; For our bad neighbour makės ...
... seems to me most strange , that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . There is some soul of goodness in things evil ,, Would men observingly distil it out ; For our bad neighbour makės ...
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