The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose : II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse : Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise, the Whole Comprising an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching and of Learning the English Language |
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Strana 25
It is better that a man's own works , than that another man's words , should praise him . Know thyself , then shall no flatterer deceive thee . King Alphonsus used to say , That his dead counsellors , meaning his books , were to him far ...
It is better that a man's own works , than that another man's words , should praise him . Know thyself , then shall no flatterer deceive thee . King Alphonsus used to say , That his dead counsellors , meaning his books , were to him far ...
Strana 34
TO carry the triumph over a person you have got the better of , too far , is mean and imprudent ; it is mean , because you have got the better ; it is imprudent , because it may provoke him to revenge your insolence in some desperate ...
TO carry the triumph over a person you have got the better of , too far , is mean and imprudent ; it is mean , because you have got the better ; it is imprudent , because it may provoke him to revenge your insolence in some desperate ...
Strana 35
If you want to show a person that you see throug his crafty designs , a hint between jest and earnest may do better than telling him bluntly and fully how he stands in your mind ; from a little he will guess the rest .
If you want to show a person that you see throug his crafty designs , a hint between jest and earnest may do better than telling him bluntly and fully how he stands in your mind ; from a little he will guess the rest .
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