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 Taste |
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The vagrant , when he begs ; the soldier , when he gives the word of command ; the watchman , when he announces the hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he ...
The vagrant , when he begs ; the soldier , when he gives the word of command ; the watchman , when he announces the hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he ...
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On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ? -- We do , my lord .
On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ? -- We do , my lord .
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The dervise told them he intended to take up his night's lodging in that caravansary . The guards let him know , in a very angry manner , that the house he was in was not a caravansary , but the king's palace . It happened that the king ...
The dervise told them he intended to take up his night's lodging in that caravansary . The guards let him know , in a very angry manner , that the house he was in was not a caravansary , but the king's palace . It happened that the king ...
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Jupiter , considering that this wspecies , commonly called man , was too virtuous to be miserable , and too vicious to be happy ; that he night make a distinction between the good and the bad , ordered the two youngest of the above ...
Jupiter , considering that this wspecies , commonly called man , was too virtuous to be miserable , and too vicious to be happy ; that he night make a distinction between the good and the bad , ordered the two youngest of the above ...
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... that Heaven has assisted her in both ; for ever since she has been unsettled in her mind , it seenis her only consolation -- she has never once had the pipe out of her land , but plays that service upon it almost night and day .
... that Heaven has assisted her in both ; for ever since she has been unsettled in her mind , it seenis her only consolation -- she has never once had the pipe out of her land , but plays that service upon it almost night and day .
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