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To speak to light heads with heavy words , were to break their necks : to clothe Summer matter , with Winter Rug , would make the Reader sweat . It is music to me , to hear every Ditty speak its spirit in its apt tune : every breast ...
To speak to light heads with heavy words , were to break their necks : to clothe Summer matter , with Winter Rug , would make the Reader sweat . It is music to me , to hear every Ditty speak its spirit in its apt tune : every breast ...
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For , Yes , but you speak at three thousand miles distance , which ecery Coward dare do , read , if my heart deceives me not , I would speak thus , in the Presence Chamber or House of Commons ; When Kings are lost , and Subjects cast ...
For , Yes , but you speak at three thousand miles distance , which ecery Coward dare do , read , if my heart deceives me not , I would speak thus , in the Presence Chamber or House of Commons ; When Kings are lost , and Subjects cast ...
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He , who would be heard with approbation , or mentioned with praise , must speak , only because there is occasion to speak ; must speak with modesty , with brevity , to forward or improve the measures proposed , or those which he ...
He , who would be heard with approbation , or mentioned with praise , must speak , only because there is occasion to speak ; must speak with modesty , with brevity , to forward or improve the measures proposed , or those which he ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Authors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Editors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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