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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... hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the ...
... hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the ...
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... hath its ftated limits ; which not being ftrictly obferved , it ceases to be virtue . Ir is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
... hath its ftated limits ; which not being ftrictly obferved , it ceases to be virtue . Ir is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
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... hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that ...
... hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that ...
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... hath not paffed through the , venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brafs ; the death thereof is an evil death ...
... hath not paffed through the , venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brafs ; the death thereof is an evil death ...
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... hath not done it ; and if he have , that he do it no more . Admonish thy friend ; it may be he hath not said it , or if he have , that he speak it not again . Admonish a friend ; for many times it is a flander ; and believe not every ...
... hath not done it ; and if he have , that he do it no more . Admonish thy friend ; it may be he hath not said it , or if he have , that he speak it not again . Admonish a friend ; for many times it is a flander ; and believe not every ...
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