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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 páginas |
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... say ? IN expreffing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few words , the weight of the fenti- ment should be accompanied with a correfpondent energy of pronunciation . For example ; One truth is clear ; Whatever is ...
... say ? IN expreffing any maxim , or doctrine , which contains much meaning in a few words , the weight of the fenti- ment should be accompanied with a correfpondent energy of pronunciation . For example ; One truth is clear ; Whatever is ...
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... be desirable to be admired as an eminent Orator , it is of much more importance to be refpected , as an able Lawyer , an ufeful Preacher , or a wife and upright statesman . b6 ESSAY E S S SAY II . ON READING WORKS OF ELOCUTION . XXXV.
... be desirable to be admired as an eminent Orator , it is of much more importance to be refpected , as an able Lawyer , an ufeful Preacher , or a wife and upright statesman . b6 ESSAY E S S SAY II . ON READING WORKS OF ELOCUTION . XXXV.
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... SAY II . ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . MULTA magis quam MULTORUM lectione formanda mens , et ducendus eft Color . QUINTIL R EADING can be confidered as a mere amufe- ment , only by the moft vulgar , or the most fri- volous part of mankind ...
... SAY II . ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . MULTA magis quam MULTORUM lectione formanda mens , et ducendus eft Color . QUINTIL R EADING can be confidered as a mere amufe- ment , only by the moft vulgar , or the most fri- volous part of mankind ...
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... say , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from it , and hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke ...
... say , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from it , and hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke ...
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... powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unfkilful ,. moft mifchievous . A MAN fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in B 6 the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES .
... powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unfkilful ,. moft mifchievous . A MAN fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in B 6 the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES .
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