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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... thoughts and fenti- ments , either from memory or immediate concep- tion ; for , befides that there is an artificial uni- formity , which almost always diftinguishes read- ing from fpeaking , the fixed pofture , and the bending B 2 ...
... thoughts and fenti- ments , either from memory or immediate concep- tion ; for , befides that there is an artificial uni- formity , which almost always diftinguishes read- ing from fpeaking , the fixed pofture , and the bending B 2 ...
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... thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only drew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing , he never can be wife but by ...
... thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only drew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing , he never can be wife but by ...
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... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions one to talk the lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend fo much in armour ...
... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions one to talk the lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend fo much in armour ...
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... thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . bat a HONOUR is but a fictious kind of honefty ; a mean , neceffary fubftitute for it , in focieties ...
... thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . bat a HONOUR is but a fictious kind of honefty ; a mean , neceffary fubftitute for it , in focieties ...
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... thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than What a fool is this s - fellow ( fays trudging it on foot with his son , he he you . Any thing to ...
... thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than What a fool is this s - fellow ( fays trudging it on foot with his son , he he you . Any thing to ...
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