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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... hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft , in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual . And , perhaps , the only in- struction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Observe in what ...
... hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft , in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual . And , perhaps , the only in- struction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Observe in what ...
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... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets ' a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which ...
... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets ' a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which ...
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... most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unfkilful , moft mifchievous . A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in the ? the wrong ; which is but faying , in other CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES . 11.
... most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unfkilful , moft mifchievous . A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in the ? the wrong ; which is but faying , in other CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES . 11.
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... hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good ...
... hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good ...
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... hand , who by the fprightlinefs of her converfa- tion and fongs of cheerfulness and joy , foftened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went smiling on the left , fup- porting the steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good ...
... hand , who by the fprightlinefs of her converfa- tion and fongs of cheerfulness and joy , foftened the toils of the way ; while Contentment went smiling on the left , fup- porting the steps of her mother , and by her perpetual good ...
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