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 Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... hands are to be employed in expressing the passions , must , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and conse- quently ineffectual . Upon this head , I shall therefore only lay down the fol- lowing general precept ...
... hands are to be employed in expressing the passions , must , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and conse- quently ineffectual . Upon this head , I shall therefore only lay down the fol- lowing general precept ...
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... hand- some address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agree- able , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding . That ci- vility is best , which excludes all ...
... hand- some address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agree- able , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding . That ci- vility is best , which excludes all ...
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... hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . The pleasure , which ...
... hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . The pleasure , which ...
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... hands ; in unskilful , most mischievous . A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying in other words , that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday . Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in ...
... hands ; in unskilful , most mischievous . A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying in other words , that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday . Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in ...
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... hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but ...
... hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but ...
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action appear arms army bear better cause CHAP common consider continued death desire earth equal ev'ry fair fall father fear feel fool fortune give Gods hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heav'n hold honour hope hour human it's John kind king laws leave light live look lord manner means mind nature never night o'er once pain pass passion peace perfection person pleasure poor pow'r praise present proper reason rest round seems sense serve side soon soul sound speak spirit stand sweet taste tears tell thee thing thou thought thousand true truth turn virtue voice whole wisdom wise wish young youth