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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... action of the organs em- ployed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold utterance . Practife these rules with perfeverance , till you have ac- quired ftrength and energy of speech . BUT in obferving this rule ...
... action of the organs em- ployed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold utterance . Practife these rules with perfeverance , till you have ac- quired ftrength and energy of speech . BUT in obferving this rule ...
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... Action against the Romans . Tacitus . The Earl of Arundel's Speech propofing an Accommodation between Henry II . and Stephen . Lord Lyttelton . 152 VIII . Mr. Pulteney's Speech on the Motion for reducing the Army . Sir John St. Aubin's ...
... Action against the Romans . Tacitus . The Earl of Arundel's Speech propofing an Accommodation between Henry II . and Stephen . Lord Lyttelton . 152 VIII . Mr. Pulteney's Speech on the Motion for reducing the Army . Sir John St. Aubin's ...
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... of ill will , and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . .5.
... of ill will , and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . .5.
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... action . Τ CHA P. VI . ◇ HE latter part of a wife man's life is taken up in cu- ring the follies , prejudices , and false opinions he had contracted in the former . CENSURE is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent . VERY ...
... action . Τ CHA P. VI . ◇ HE latter part of a wife man's life is taken up in cu- ring the follies , prejudices , and false opinions he had contracted in the former . CENSURE is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent . VERY ...
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... actions . EVERY perfon infenfibly fixes upon fome degree of refine- ment in his difcourfe , fome measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions one to talk the lefs . To ...
... actions . EVERY perfon infenfibly fixes upon fome degree of refine- ment in his difcourfe , fome measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions one to talk the lefs . To ...
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