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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