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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... truth , that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . With- out the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is fuf ficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge ...
... truth , that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . With- out the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is fuf ficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge ...
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... TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature , to shake off our veracity . THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No ...
... TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature , to shake off our veracity . THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No ...
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... TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets ' a man's invention ...
... TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets ' a man's invention ...
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... truth ; under- ftand firft , and then rebuke . If thou wouldeft get a friend , prove him firft and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
... truth ; under- ftand firft , and then rebuke . If thou wouldeft get a friend , prove him firft and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE ...
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