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 |
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I have only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just
elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is some difficulty in carrying
the art of speaking out of the school , or chamber , to the bar , the senate , or the ...
I have only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just
elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is some difficulty in carrying
the art of speaking out of the school , or chamber , to the bar , the senate , or the ...
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Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be
chewed and digested ; that is , some books are to be read only in parts ; others to
be read , but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly , and with diligence
and ...
Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be
chewed and digested ; that is , some books are to be read only in parts ; others to
be read , but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly , and with diligence
and ...
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Fair op'ning to some Court's propitious shine , Or deep with diamonds in the
flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron
harvests of the field ? Where grows ? —where grows it not ? If vain our toil , We ...
Fair op'ning to some Court's propitious shine , Or deep with diamonds in the
flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , Or reap'd in iron
harvests of the field ? Where grows ? —where grows it not ? If vain our toil , We ...
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Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect , Some frail memorial ftill erected nigh ,
With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd , Implores the passing
tribute of a figh . 1 Their name , their years , spelt by th ' unletter'd Mufe , The
place ...
Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect , Some frail memorial ftill erected nigh ,
With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd , Implores the passing
tribute of a figh . 1 Their name , their years , spelt by th ' unletter'd Mufe , The
place ...
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IT T was some time in the summer of that year in which Dendermond was taken
by the allies , which was about seven years before my father came into the
country , -- and about as many after the time , that my uncle Toby and Trim had
privately ...
IT T was some time in the summer of that year in which Dendermond was taken
by the allies , which was about seven years before my father came into the
country , -- and about as many after the time , that my uncle Toby and Trim had
privately ...
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