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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... seems to be no sufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained some authority , that a writer , for the sake of distinctness , should confine himself to the ex- pression of a single thought in each sentence . It would be easy to ...
... seems to be no sufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained some authority , that a writer , for the sake of distinctness , should confine himself to the ex- pression of a single thought in each sentence . It would be easy to ...
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... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
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... seems owing to simplicity . Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former in a natural man- ner ; in word and phrase simple , perspicuous , and incapa- ble of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
... seems owing to simplicity . Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former in a natural man- ner ; in word and phrase simple , perspicuous , and incapa- ble of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
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... seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this ... seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... seem to wear one heart , Whose hours , whose bed , whose meal and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this ... seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... seems to me most strange , that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . There is some soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ; For our bad neighbour makes us ...
... seems to me most strange , that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . There is some soul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out ; For our bad neighbour makes us ...
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