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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1797 - 436 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxiii
... never yet been ana- lyfed ; and perhaps it is not within the reach of human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to excute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a ...
... never yet been ana- lyfed ; and perhaps it is not within the reach of human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to excute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a ...
Pàgina 2
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handfome addrefs , and graceful converfation . COMPLAISANCE ...
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handfome addrefs , and graceful converfation . COMPLAISANCE ...
Pàgina 3
... never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that course of life which is the most excel- lent ; and ...
... never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that course of life which is the most excel- lent ; and ...
Pàgina 4
... never can be wife but by his own wisdom . HE who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning , for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
... never can be wife but by his own wisdom . HE who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learning , for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
Pàgina 5
... never drew fuch a part ; she has sometimes made a 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 ...
... never drew fuch a part ; she has sometimes made a 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 ...
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