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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... thee gone : Why should I hurt thee ? -This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me . This lesson of universal good will , taught by my uncle Toby , may serve instead of a whole volume upon the sub- jeet . XIV . - Story of ...
... thee gone : Why should I hurt thee ? -This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me . This lesson of universal good will , taught by my uncle Toby , may serve instead of a whole volume upon the sub- jeet . XIV . - Story of ...
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... thee a second time . Thy years are few , but full , my son . The victim of virtue has reached the utmost purpose and goal of mortality . Who next , my friends ! This is the hour of heroes . " " Your kinsman , " éried John de Aire ...
... thee a second time . Thy years are few , but full , my son . The victim of virtue has reached the utmost purpose and goal of mortality . Who next , my friends ! This is the hour of heroes . " " Your kinsman , " éried John de Aire ...
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... thee , thou art no less bitter on that account . It is thou , liberty ! thrice sweet and gracious Goddess , whom all , in publie or in private , worship ; whose taste is grateful , and ever will be so till nature herself shall change ...
... thee , thou art no less bitter on that account . It is thou , liberty ! thrice sweet and gracious Goddess , whom all , in publie or in private , worship ; whose taste is grateful , and ever will be so till nature herself shall change ...
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... thee , eried my uncle Toby ; and thou shalt drink the poor gen tleman's health in a glass of sack thyself - and take a couple of bottles with my service , and tell him he is hear- tily welcome to them , and to a dozen more , if they ...
... thee , eried my uncle Toby ; and thou shalt drink the poor gen tleman's health in a glass of sack thyself - and take a couple of bottles with my service , and tell him he is hear- tily welcome to them , and to a dozen more , if they ...
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... thee to drink with his ser- vant . I shall get it all out of him , said the corporal , shut- ting the door . It was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe , that corporal Trim returned from the inn , and gave ...
... thee to drink with his ser- vant . I shall get it all out of him , said the corporal , shut- ting the door . It was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe , that corporal Trim returned from the inn , and gave ...
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