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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... never ceases to wear a dignified and interesting aspect . Comedy , in the natural and eafy drefs , in which , after the best Greek models , fhe is clothed by Terence , can never fail to please . Lyric poetry , whilst it rolls on , like ...
... never ceases to wear a dignified and interesting aspect . Comedy , in the natural and eafy drefs , in which , after the best Greek models , fhe is clothed by Terence , can never fail to please . Lyric poetry , whilst it rolls on , like ...
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... never be forgotten . Whatever tends to enlighten the understanding , to enlarge the concep- tions , to imprefs the heart with the right feelings , or to afford afford innocent and rational amufement , may be pro- nounced xi ON READING.
... never be forgotten . Whatever tends to enlighten the understanding , to enlarge the concep- tions , to imprefs the heart with the right feelings , or to afford afford innocent and rational amufement , may be pro- nounced xi ON READING.
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... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful conversation . COMPLAISANCE ...
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handsome addrefs , and graceful conversation . COMPLAISANCE ...
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... never can be wife but by his own wifdóm . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learn- ing , for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
... never can be wife but by his own wifdóm . He who wants good fenfe , is unhappy in having learn- ing , for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
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... not offended with his tongue ? WHOSO discovereth fecrets lofeth his credit , and shall never find a friend to his mind . B 4 HONOUR HONOUR thy father with thy whole heart , and forget CHAP . V. 7 SELECT SENTENCES , Grongar Hi!!- Page Chap.
... not offended with his tongue ? WHOSO discovereth fecrets lofeth his credit , and shall never find a friend to his mind . B 4 HONOUR HONOUR thy father with thy whole heart , and forget CHAP . V. 7 SELECT SENTENCES , Grongar Hi!!- Page Chap.
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