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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... sense of variety . To complete the merit of any literary work as far as thought is concerned , it is neceffary to add to every other excellence that of UTILITY . In writing , as in life , this ultimate end fhould never be forgotten ...
... sense of variety . To complete the merit of any literary work as far as thought is concerned , it is neceffary to add to every other excellence that of UTILITY . In writing , as in life , this ultimate end fhould never be forgotten ...
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... sense , by interrupting the relation and dependance of the thoughts . A writer who thinks closely , and in a train , will frequently have occafion to express combinations of ideas , which will re- quire fentences of confiderable length ...
... sense , by interrupting the relation and dependance of the thoughts . A writer who thinks closely , and in a train , will frequently have occafion to express combinations of ideas , which will re- quire fentences of confiderable length ...
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... sense are not half fo valuable as common fenfe . There are forty men of wit for one man of fense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold , will be every day at a lofs for want of ready change . LEARNING is like mercury , one ...
... sense are not half fo valuable as common fenfe . There are forty men of wit for one man of fense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold , will be every day at a lofs for want of ready change . LEARNING is like mercury , one ...
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... with firmness of mind , is a short , but full defcrip- tion of human perfection , on this fide of religious and mo- ral duties . LORD CHESTERFIELD . 1 CHAP . VIII . ON GOOD SENSE . WERE I 88 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
... with firmness of mind , is a short , but full defcrip- tion of human perfection , on this fide of religious and mo- ral duties . LORD CHESTERFIELD . 1 CHAP . VIII . ON GOOD SENSE . WERE I 88 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
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... SENSE . WERE I to explain what I understand by good fense , I should call it right reason ; but right reason that arises not from formal and logical deductions , but from a fort of in- tuitive faculty in the foul , which diftinguishes ...
... SENSE . WERE I to explain what I understand by good fense , I should call it right reason ; but right reason that arises not from formal and logical deductions , but from a fort of in- tuitive faculty in the foul , which diftinguishes ...
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