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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... perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Mysterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid .. But who can paint the lover as he stood , Pierc'd by fevere amazement , hating life ...
... perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Mysterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid .. But who can paint the lover as he stood , Pierc'd by fevere amazement , hating life ...
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... perfection was never seen to laugh . CHEARFULNESS of mind is not liable to any of thefe ex- ceptions ; it is of a ferious and compofed nature ; it does not throw the mind into a condition improper for the prefent ftate of humanity , and ...
... perfection was never seen to laugh . CHEARFULNESS of mind is not liable to any of thefe ex- ceptions ; it is of a ferious and compofed nature ; it does not throw the mind into a condition improper for the prefent ftate of humanity , and ...
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... perfection , and consequently an increafe of happi- nefs ? The consciousness of fuch a being spreads a perpetu- al diffuffion of joy through the foul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he ...
... perfection , and consequently an increafe of happi- nefs ? The consciousness of fuch a being spreads a perpetu- al diffuffion of joy through the foul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he ...
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... perfection , That aids and ftrengthens virtue when it meets her , And imitates her actions where he is not . It ought not to be fported with .——————- CATO In the fecond place , we are to confider those who have miftaken notions of ...
... perfection , That aids and ftrengthens virtue when it meets her , And imitates her actions where he is not . It ought not to be fported with .——————- CATO In the fecond place , we are to confider those who have miftaken notions of ...
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... perfection to human abilities , are furprised to fee men wrinkled with study , yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumftances of propriety , or the neceffary , forms of daily tranfaction ; and quickly fhake off their reverence ...
... perfection to human abilities , are furprised to fee men wrinkled with study , yet wanting to be instructed in the minute circumftances of propriety , or the neceffary , forms of daily tranfaction ; and quickly fhake off their reverence ...
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