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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... spirit of every fentence , and to adhere as nearly as poffible to the manner in which we distinguish one word from another in conversation ; for in familiar difcourfe we fcarcely ever fail to express ourselves emphatically , or place ...
... spirit of every fentence , and to adhere as nearly as poffible to the manner in which we distinguish one word from another in conversation ; for in familiar difcourfe we fcarcely ever fail to express ourselves emphatically , or place ...
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... spirit , to repel the wrongs that are done , or defigned against us : but if we diveft ourselves of all refentment , we fhall perhaps prove too irrefolute irrefolute and languid , both in refifting the attacks of BOOK IV ARGUMENTATIVE ...
... spirit , to repel the wrongs that are done , or defigned against us : but if we diveft ourselves of all refentment , we fhall perhaps prove too irrefolute irrefolute and languid , both in refifting the attacks of BOOK IV ARGUMENTATIVE ...
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... spirit to perfection , will be fufficient to extinguish all envy in inferior natures , and all contempt in fuperior . That cherubim , which now appears as a God to a human foul , knows very well that the period will come about in ...
... spirit to perfection , will be fufficient to extinguish all envy in inferior natures , and all contempt in fuperior . That cherubim , which now appears as a God to a human foul , knows very well that the period will come about in ...
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... spirit , or a bad education , will be disposed to favour the tyrant . The number of these can be but small , and we have means fuffi- cient in our hands to reduce them to reafon . They have left us hoftages more dear to them than life ...
... spirit , or a bad education , will be disposed to favour the tyrant . The number of these can be but small , and we have means fuffi- cient in our hands to reduce them to reafon . They have left us hoftages more dear to them than life ...
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... spirit , will only render us more obnoxious to our imperious maf- ters ; while the very remoteness and fecrecy of our fituation , in proportion as it conduces to fecurity , will tend to inspire fufpicion . Since then all hopes of ...
... spirit , will only render us more obnoxious to our imperious maf- ters ; while the very remoteness and fecrecy of our fituation , in proportion as it conduces to fecurity , will tend to inspire fufpicion . Since then all hopes of ...
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