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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... spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for these are far from marking all the pauses which ...
... spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for these are far from marking all the pauses which ...
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... spirit , Afcribes his gettings to his parts and merit ; What late he call'd a Bleffing , now was Wit , And God's good Providence , a lucky Hit . Things change their titles , as our manners turn : His Compting - house employ'd the Sunday ...
... spirit , Afcribes his gettings to his parts and merit ; What late he call'd a Bleffing , now was Wit , And God's good Providence , a lucky Hit . Things change their titles , as our manners turn : His Compting - house employ'd the Sunday ...
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... spirit , with humanity : ' Tis fometimes angry , and its frown confounds ; " Tis even vindictive , but in vengeance juft . Knaves fain would laugh at it ; fome great ones dare ; But at his heart the most undaunted fon Of fortune dreads ...
... spirit , with humanity : ' Tis fometimes angry , and its frown confounds ; " Tis even vindictive , but in vengeance juft . Knaves fain would laugh at it ; fome great ones dare ; But at his heart the most undaunted fon Of fortune dreads ...
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... spirit or a bad education , will be disposed to favour the tyrant . The number of these can be but small , and we have means fuffici- ent in our hands to reduce them to reason . They have left us hoftages more dear to them than life ...
... spirit or a bad education , will be disposed to favour the tyrant . The number of these can be but small , and we have means fuffici- ent in our hands to reduce them to reason . They have left us hoftages more dear to them than life ...
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... spirit will only render us more obnoxious to our imperious maf- ters ; while the very remoteness and secrecy of our fituation , in proportion as it conduces to fecurity , will tend to infpire fufpicion . Since then all hopes of ...
... spirit will only render us more obnoxious to our imperious maf- ters ; while the very remoteness and secrecy of our fituation , in proportion as it conduces to fecurity , will tend to infpire fufpicion . Since then all hopes of ...
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