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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... foul , by tearing a passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares such speakers to cripples who get on horfe - back because they cannot walk : they bellow , becaufe they cannot fpeak ...
... foul , by tearing a passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares such speakers to cripples who get on horfe - back because they cannot walk : they bellow , becaufe they cannot fpeak ...
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... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft speaking , are deferving of attention ...
... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft speaking , are deferving of attention ...
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... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecu- ring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecu- ring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
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... foul of great- nefs are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath his virtues by will , and fettle his fenfe and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble ...
... foul of great- nefs are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath his virtues by will , and fettle his fenfe and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble ...
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... foul . He who tells a lye is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reafon ,. because they understand every ...
... foul . He who tells a lye is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reafon ,. because they understand every ...
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