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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... look for this ftandard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with ...
... look for this ftandard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with ...
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... looks , and geftures . THERE HERE is the language of emotions and paffions , as well as of ideas . To exprefs the latter is the peculiar province of words ; to exprefs the former , nature teaches us to make ufe of tones , looks , and ...
... looks , and geftures . THERE HERE is the language of emotions and paffions , as well as of ideas . To exprefs the latter is the peculiar province of words ; to exprefs the former , nature teaches us to make ufe of tones , looks , and ...
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... look , what he faith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man fpeak , they fay , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the fword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
... look , what he faith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man fpeak , they fay , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the fword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
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... looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an ...
... looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an ...
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... looks , and all the variety of colours in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to fhew her complexion to advantage . She caft her eyes upon herself , then turned them on thofe that were prefent , to see how they liked her ...
... looks , and all the variety of colours in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to fhew her complexion to advantage . She caft her eyes upon herself , then turned them on thofe that were prefent , to see how they liked her ...
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