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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... light up glory through her wide domain ; . Their various tastes in diff'rent arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly urion in one mass shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am ...
... light up glory through her wide domain ; . Their various tastes in diff'rent arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of light and shade , With friendly urion in one mass shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am ...
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... light that is IN thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a just and for- cible emphasis , nothing more is necessary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and spirit ...
... light that is IN thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a just and for- cible emphasis , nothing more is necessary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and spirit ...
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... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence the cha- racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman ...
... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence the cha- racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman ...
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... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But ...
... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But ...
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... light and dark- ness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was Plea- sure , who was the daughter of Happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the ...
... light and dark- ness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was Plea- sure , who was the daughter of Happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the ...
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