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. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 páginas |
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... a high key is the same thing as speaking loud ; and not obferving , that whether a fpeaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the a 6 diftinctnefs diftinctness and force with which he utters his upon the ELOCUTION . xi.
... a high key is the same thing as speaking loud ; and not obferving , that whether a fpeaker shall be heard or not , depends more upon the a 6 diftinctnefs diftinctness and force with which he utters his upon the ELOCUTION . xi.
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... same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not fo much as take warning ? ALTHOUGH men are accused for not knowing their own weakness , yet perhaps as few ...
... same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice , when they will not fo much as take warning ? ALTHOUGH men are accused for not knowing their own weakness , yet perhaps as few ...
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... same perfon would very often fide with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wife men of the world food neuter ; but alas , their numbers were not confidera- able . At length when these two potentates ...
... same perfon would very often fide with one in his youth , and revolt to the other in his old age . Indeed the wife men of the world food neuter ; but alas , their numbers were not confidera- able . At length when these two potentates ...
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... P. III . THE SAME SUBJECT . A LL men pursue Good , and would be happy , if they knew how ; not happy for minutes , and miferable for hours , hours , but happy , if poffible , through every 130 ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . Book IV .
... P. III . THE SAME SUBJECT . A LL men pursue Good , and would be happy , if they knew how ; not happy for minutes , and miferable for hours , hours , but happy , if poffible , through every 130 ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . Book IV .
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... SAME SUBJECT . BRUTUS perifhed untimely , and Cæfar did no more-- These words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and chearfully bade me good . morrow . I could not return his compliment with an equal ...
... SAME SUBJECT . BRUTUS perifhed untimely , and Cæfar did no more-- These words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and chearfully bade me good . morrow . I could not return his compliment with an equal ...
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