Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... live ; instead of living as many do , in order to eat and drink . Be moderate in your pleasures , that your relish for them may continue . Time is requisite to bring great projects to maturity . Precipitation ruins the best contrived ...
... live ; instead of living as many do , in order to eat and drink . Be moderate in your pleasures , that your relish for them may continue . Time is requisite to bring great projects to maturity . Precipitation ruins the best contrived ...
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... live as good friends and con- federates , and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the same person between ...
... live as good friends and con- federates , and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the same person between ...
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... live long ; and that to show her tender regard for him , she had saved that which the poor man loved better than his life . The next came towards us with her son upon her back , who we were told , was the greatest rake in the place ...
... live long ; and that to show her tender regard for him , she had saved that which the poor man loved better than his life . The next came towards us with her son upon her back , who we were told , was the greatest rake in the place ...
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... live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetu- ally wanting . because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavor to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times ...
... live in a kind of splendid poverty ; and are perpetu- ally wanting . because , instead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavor to outvie one another in shadows and appearances . Men of sense have at all times ...
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... lives , make themselves wiser or better then they were before . After having been taken up for some time in this course of thought , I diverted myself with a book , according to my usual custom , in order to unbend my mind before I went ...
... lives , make themselves wiser or better then they were before . After having been taken up for some time in this course of thought , I diverted myself with a book , according to my usual custom , in order to unbend my mind before I went ...
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