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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... it is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an anfwer , fhould al- moft most always be elevated at the close , with a * xxii AN ESSAY ON.
... it is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an anfwer , fhould al- moft most always be elevated at the close , with a * xxii AN ESSAY ON.
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... seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the fame ; and every judicious imitation of it will always be ...
... seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the fame ; and every judicious imitation of it will always be ...
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... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . ALIAB A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like truth , SELECT SENTENCES . Book 1 .
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . ALIAB A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like truth , SELECT SENTENCES . Book 1 .
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... seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a neceffary end , Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us ...
... seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a neceffary end , Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly diftil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us ...
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... seems her only confolation - fhe has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that service upon it almost night and day . THE postillion delivered this with fo much difcretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help ...
... seems her only confolation - fhe has never once had the pipe out of her hand , but plays that service upon it almost night and day . THE postillion delivered this with fo much difcretion and natural eloquence , that I could not help ...
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