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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... , upon trial , that they mislead instead of affifting the reader , by not leaving him at full liberty to fol- low his own understanding and feelings . THE THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , laying fo xviii AN ESSAY ON.
... , upon trial , that they mislead instead of affifting the reader , by not leaving him at full liberty to fol- low his own understanding and feelings . THE THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , laying fo xviii AN ESSAY ON.
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... leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the great- eft stress on conjunctive particles , and other words of fecondary importance . These ...
... leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the great- eft stress on conjunctive particles , and other words of fecondary importance . These ...
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... 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 courfe of life which is the most excellent ; and habit will render it the most ...
... 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 courfe of life which is the most excellent ; and habit will render it the most ...
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... Leave not a wreck behind ! we are fuch stuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that fhould teach us , There's a divinity ...
... Leave not a wreck behind ! we are fuch stuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that fhould teach us , There's a divinity ...
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... asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan- fary Sir , fays the Dervise , give ine leave to ask your ma- C 3 jefty jefty a queftion or two . Who were the perfons воок II. ...
... asked him how he could pof- fibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravan- fary Sir , fays the Dervise , give ine leave to ask your ma- C 3 jefty jefty a queftion or two . Who were the perfons воок II. ...
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