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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... present their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the moft lively colouring , are faid to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . MOREOVER , fince there is in human nature a princi- ple of curiofity , which leads us to contemplate unusual ...
... present their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the moft lively colouring , are faid to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . MOREOVER , fince there is in human nature a princi- ple of curiofity , which leads us to contemplate unusual ...
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... present ftate of modern languages , particu larly the English , ftability and uniformity are of more confequence than enlargement . It is not in the power of fashion to justify the affectation of introducing foreign words and phrafes to ...
... present ftate of modern languages , particu larly the English , ftability and uniformity are of more confequence than enlargement . It is not in the power of fashion to justify the affectation of introducing foreign words and phrafes to ...
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... present . It is no part of wisdom to be mife- rable to - day , because we may happen to be so to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . SOME would be thought to do great things , who are but ...
... present . It is no part of wisdom to be mife- rable to - day , because we may happen to be so to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . SOME would be thought to do great things , who are but ...
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... , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at at present ? The king told him , That it [ 17 ] BOOK II-NARRATIVE PIECES.
... , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at at present ? The king told him , That it [ 17 ] BOOK II-NARRATIVE PIECES.
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... present ? The king told him , That it was he himself . And who , fays the Dervife , will be here after you ? The king answered , The young prince his fon . ' Ah , Sir , ' faid the Dervife , a house that changes its inhabitants fo often ...
... present ? The king told him , That it was he himself . And who , fays the Dervife , will be here after you ? The king answered , The young prince his fon . ' Ah , Sir , ' faid the Dervife , a house that changes its inhabitants fo often ...
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