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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... say you ? -Arm'd , my lord . - From top to toe ? -My lord , from head to foot . Except that , where an interrogative pronoun or adverb begins a fentence , it is ufually ended with the clofing pause : as ; Why should that name be founded ...
... say you ? -Arm'd , my lord . - From top to toe ? -My lord , from head to foot . Except that , where an interrogative pronoun or adverb begins a fentence , it is ufually ended with the clofing pause : as ; Why should that name be founded ...
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... in the world in skilful hands ; in un- fkilful , moft mischievous . A MAN fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words 10 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES . Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
... in the world in skilful hands ; in un- fkilful , moft mischievous . A MAN fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words 10 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES . Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
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... saying in other words , that he is wifer to - day than he was yesterday . " WHEREVER I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man , I take it for granted there would be as much gene- rofity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric ...
... saying in other words , that he is wifer to - day than he was yesterday . " WHEREVER I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man , I take it for granted there would be as much gene- rofity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric ...
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... saying to one another ; liften to their discourse , and give me an ac- count of it . The vifier approached the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the fultan ; Sir , fays he , I have heard part of ...
... saying to one another ; liften to their discourse , and give me an ac- count of it . The vifier approached the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the fultan ; Sir , fays he , I have heard part of ...
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... say a modeft affurance ; by which we understand the just mean between bashfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with obferving , that as the fame man may be both modeft and affured , fo it is also poffible for the fame person to be ...
... say a modeft affurance ; by which we understand the just mean between bashfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with obferving , that as the fame man may be both modeft and affured , fo it is also poffible for the fame person to be ...
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