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 ...Peter B. Gleason, 1812 - 382 páginas |
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... virtue ; pass once its limits , and you fall headlong into vice . Examine well the counsel that favors your desires . The gratification of desire , is sometimes the worst thing that can befal us . IV . O be angry , is to punish myself ...
... virtue ; pass once its limits , and you fall headlong into vice . Examine well the counsel that favors your desires . The gratification of desire , is sometimes the worst thing that can befal us . IV . O be angry , is to punish myself ...
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... virtues ; and more frequently crushed by it than by his vices . E. V. VEN self - interest is a motive for ... virtue is more illustrious than vice in its highest prosperity . No man is so foolish , but he may give good counsel ...
... virtues ; and more frequently crushed by it than by his vices . E. V. VEN self - interest is a motive for ... virtue is more illustrious than vice in its highest prosperity . No man is so foolish , but he may give good counsel ...
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... virtue , and application to the studies proper for your age . This makes me hope you will gain both for yourself and me an immortal repu- tation . But before I invite you into my society and friendship , I will be open and sincere with ...
... virtue , and application to the studies proper for your age . This makes me hope you will gain both for yourself and me an immortal repu- tation . But before I invite you into my society and friendship , I will be open and sincere with ...
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... virtue . You have , then , already contracted a great debt of gratitude to them . You can pay it by no other method , but by using properly the advantages which their goodness has afforded you . If your own endeavors are deficient , it ...
... virtue . You have , then , already contracted a great debt of gratitude to them . You can pay it by no other method , but by using properly the advantages which their goodness has afforded you . If your own endeavors are deficient , it ...
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... virtues , and all of them virtues of the most amiable kind . It tends to render you at once good and agreeable . You must , there- fore , be an enemy to your own enjoyment , if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment ...
... virtues , and all of them virtues of the most amiable kind . It tends to render you at once good and agreeable . You must , there- fore , be an enemy to your own enjoyment , if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment ...
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