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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IN PRAISE OF VIRTUE ........ Price , 153 13. THE SPEECH OF BRUTUS ON THE CLEON'S FLATTERY TO ALEX- ANDER .............. Quintus Curtius , 128 5. THE SCYTHIAN AMBASSADOR TO ALEXANDER ................... ib . 129 6.
IN PRAISE OF VIRTUE ........ Price , 153 13. THE SPEECH OF BRUTUS ON THE CLEON'S FLATTERY TO ALEX- ANDER .............. Quintus Curtius , 128 5. THE SCYTHIAN AMBASSADOR TO ALEXANDER ................... ib . 129 6.
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... if there be any virtue , and if there be any praise , think on these things * . On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ?
... if there be any virtue , and if there be any praise , think on these things * . On the contrary , interrogative sentences are terminated by the suspending pause ; as in the following example : Hold you the watch to night ?
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The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- serving man shall meet with more reproaches , than all his virtues , praise : such is the force of ill will and ill nature ...
The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds ; and one fault of a de- serving man shall meet with more reproaches , than all his virtues , praise : such is the force of ill will and ill nature ...
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You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; or saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they ...
You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; or saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they ...
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My young men have the pleasure of hearing them- selves praised by those who are in years , and those who are in years , of being honoured by those who are young . In a word , my followers are favoured by the Gods , beloved by their ...
My young men have the pleasure of hearing them- selves praised by those who are in years , and those who are in years , of being honoured by those who are young . In a word , my followers are favoured by the Gods , beloved by their ...
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| Título | 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 |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Editora | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
| Original de | Universidade do Estado de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 30 Set 2014 |
| Número de páginas | 346 páginas |
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