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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... PERSONS of great delicacy should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of their determination ; and this through a pro ...
... PERSONS of great delicacy should know the certainty of the following truth : there are abundance of cafes which occafion fufpenfe , in which whatever they determine they will repent of their determination ; and this through a pro ...
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... person of a man who had fat down betwixt her and her goat about two years before ? She faid , fhe was unfettled much at that time , but remembered it upon two accounts that ill as fhe was , fhe faw the perfon pitied her ; and next ...
... person of a man who had fat down betwixt her and her goat about two years before ? She faid , fhe was unfettled much at that time , but remembered it upon two accounts that ill as fhe was , fhe faw the perfon pitied her ; and next ...
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... person of a free and open carriage , is now very ufa- ally applied to a profligate wretch , who can break through all the rules of decency and morality without a blush . I SHALL endeavour therefore in this effay to reftore these words ...
... person of a free and open carriage , is now very ufa- ally applied to a profligate wretch , who can break through all the rules of decency and morality without a blush . I SHALL endeavour therefore in this effay to reftore these words ...
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... person to be both impudent and bashful . We have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education ; who though they are not able to meet a man's eyes , or pronounce a fentence without ...
... person to be both impudent and bashful . We have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education ; who though they are not able to meet a man's eyes , or pronounce a fentence without ...
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... person of moderate fenfe and virtue , it is an evil , which has no advantage at- tending it . The harm it must do him is very apparent . It must ruffle his temper , make him lefs agreeable to his friends , dif- turb his reason , and ...
... person of moderate fenfe and virtue , it is an evil , which has no advantage at- tending it . The harm it must do him is very apparent . It must ruffle his temper , make him lefs agreeable to his friends , dif- turb his reason , and ...
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