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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Ellin Devis

Ellin Devis, also known as Eilen Devis or Ellin Davis, was a schoolmistress and author of The Accidence (1775), a popular eighteenth-century grammar.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius. — © Ellin Devis
The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.
the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.
There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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