Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix, Containing Concise Lessons on a New Plan, and Principles of English GrammarC. Elliot, 1789 - 398 psl. |
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... a great mind . A man who gives his children a habit of industry , provides for them better than by giving them a stock of money . II . OUR good or bad fortune depends greatly on B II . The fox and the goat, LESSONS in READING.
... a great mind . A man who gives his children a habit of industry , provides for them better than by giving them a stock of money . II . OUR good or bad fortune depends greatly on B II . The fox and the goat, LESSONS in READING.
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... fortune depends greatly on the choice we make of our friends . The young are flaves to novelty , the old to custom . No preacher is fo fuccefsful as time . It gives a turn of thought to the aged , which it was impoffible to in- fpire ...
... fortune depends greatly on the choice we make of our friends . The young are flaves to novelty , the old to custom . No preacher is fo fuccefsful as time . It gives a turn of thought to the aged , which it was impoffible to in- fpire ...
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... fortune is more frequently made by his tongue than by his virtues ; and more frequently crushed by it than by his vices .. V. EVEN felf - intereft is a motive for benevolence . There are none fo low but may have it in their power to ...
... fortune is more frequently made by his tongue than by his virtues ; and more frequently crushed by it than by his vices .. V. EVEN felf - intereft is a motive for benevolence . There are none fo low but may have it in their power to ...
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... fortune to make thy efcape : -Never venture into a well again , before thou haft well confidered how to get out of it . VII . The Fox and the Stork . THE Fox , though in general more inclined to roguery than wit , had once a ftrong ...
... fortune to make thy efcape : -Never venture into a well again , before thou haft well confidered how to get out of it . VII . The Fox and the Stork . THE Fox , though in general more inclined to roguery than wit , had once a ftrong ...
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... fortune that way without fuccefs . I cannot however difmifs his letter , without obferving that the true story on which it is built does honour to the fex ; and that in order order to abuse them , the writer is obliged to SECT . I. 33 ...
... fortune that way without fuccefs . I cannot however difmifs his letter , without obferving that the true story on which it is built does honour to the fex ; and that in order order to abuse them , the writer is obliged to SECT . I. 33 ...
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