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 are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 páginas |
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... looks , and gestures . THERE is unquestionably a language of emotions and pas- sions , as well as a language of ideas . Words are the arbitrary signs , by which our conceptions and judgments are commu- nicated ; and for this end they ...
... looks , and gestures . THERE is unquestionably a language of emotions and pas- sions , as well as a language of ideas . Words are the arbitrary signs , by which our conceptions and judgments are commu- nicated ; and for this end they ...
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... looks , and gesture . It were much to be wished , that all public speakers would deliver their thoughts and sentiments , either from memory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost ...
... looks , and gesture . It were much to be wished , that all public speakers would deliver their thoughts and sentiments , either from memory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost ...
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... look , what he saith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
... look , what he saith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
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... looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an ...
... looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an ...
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... look- ed about him for some time , he entered into a long gallery , where he laid down his wallet , and spread his carpet , in or- der to repose himself upon it after the manner of the eastern nations . He had not been long in this ...
... look- ed about him for some time , he entered into a long gallery , where he laid down his wallet , and spread his carpet , in or- der to repose himself upon it after the manner of the eastern nations . He had not been long in this ...
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