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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... once put in motion , clat- ters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the spirit of what is delivered must be lost , and the sense must appear confused , and may even be misrepresented in a manner most absurd ...
... once put in motion , clat- ters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the spirit of what is delivered must be lost , and the sense must appear confused , and may even be misrepresented in a manner most absurd ...
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... once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men ...
... once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men ...
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... once the harmony . Men's zeal for religion is much of the same kind as that which they show for a football : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once at an ...
... once the harmony . Men's zeal for religion is much of the same kind as that which they show for a football : whenever it is contested for , every one is ready to venture their lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once at an ...
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... While it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... While it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... once given up . He looked attentively a long time at it , beginning at the hilt , as if to see whether it was the same when , observing a little rust which it had con- tracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bend- ing ...
... once given up . He looked attentively a long time at it , beginning at the hilt , as if to see whether it was the same when , observing a little rust which it had con- tracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bend- ing ...
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