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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... means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for these are far from marking all the pauses which ought to be made in speaking . A mechanical attention to these refting places has perhaps been one chief cause of ...
... means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for these are far from marking all the pauses which ought to be made in speaking . A mechanical attention to these refting places has perhaps been one chief cause of ...
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... mean in all things . Even virtue itself 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 ...
... mean in all things . Even virtue itself 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 ...
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... means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice ...
... means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the same time a bad disposition , and a bad taste . How is it poffible to expect that mankind will take ad- vice ...
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... mean , neceffary fubftitute for it , in focieties who have none : it is a fort of paper - credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the fterling cash of true morality and religion . PERSONS of great delicacy ...
... mean , neceffary fubftitute for it , in focieties who have none : it is a fort of paper - credit , with which men are obliged to trade , who are deficient in the fterling cash of true morality and religion . PERSONS of great delicacy ...
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... means it is that we find Pleasure and Pain are fuch conftant yoke - fellows , and that they ei ther make their visits together , or are never far asunder . If Pain comes into a heart , he is quickly followed by Plea- fure ; and if ...
... means it is that we find Pleasure and Pain are fuch conftant yoke - fellows , and that they ei ther make their visits together , or are never far asunder . If Pain comes into a heart , he is quickly followed by Plea- fure ; and if ...
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