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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... never yet been ana- lyfed ; and perhaps it is not within the reach of human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to execute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a ...
... never yet been ana- lyfed ; and perhaps it is not within the reach of human ability , to write a Philofophical Grammar of the Paffions . Or , if it were poffible in any degree to execute this defign , I cannot think , that from fuch a ...
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... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , handsome address , and graceful conversation . than a COMPLAISANCE ...
... never have any true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , handsome address , and graceful conversation . than a COMPLAISANCE ...
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... 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 courfe of life which is the most excellent ; and habit ...
... 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 courfe of life which is the most excellent ; and habit ...
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... never can be wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
... never can be wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing ...
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... never drew fuch a part ; she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds ...
... never drew fuch a part ; she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds ...
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