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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... true in the art of speaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little ufe till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes .. To obferve the various ways by which nature expref- fes the feveral ...
... true in the art of speaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little ufe till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes .. To obferve the various ways by which nature expref- fes the feveral ...
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... true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those ...
... true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those ...
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... ridicule , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . graceful graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquired by having xxviii AN ESSAY ...
... ridicule , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . graceful graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquired by having xxviii AN ESSAY ...
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... true gentleman has acquired by having learnt to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always exhi- biting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet - step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British ...
... true gentleman has acquired by having learnt to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always exhi- biting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet - step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British ...
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... 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 renders a fuperior ...
... 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 renders a fuperior ...
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