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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Página 68
... seem to be any thing , is really to be what he would feem to be . Befides , it is often as troublefome to fupport the pretence of a good quality , as to have it ; and if a man have it not , it is most likely he will be discovered to ...
... seem to be any thing , is really to be what he would feem to be . Befides , it is often as troublefome to fupport the pretence of a good quality , as to have it ; and if a man have it not , it is most likely he will be discovered to ...
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... seem an echo to the fense : Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lash the founding shore , The hoarse , rough verfe should like the torrent roar : When Ajax ...
... seem an echo to the fense : Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud furges lash the founding shore , The hoarse , rough verfe should like the torrent roar : When Ajax ...
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... seems to me to carry a great weight with it . How can it enter into the thoughts of man , that the foul , which is capable of fuch immenfe perfections , and of receiving new improvements to all eternity , shall fall away into nothing ...
... seems to me to carry a great weight with it . How can it enter into the thoughts of man , that the foul , which is capable of fuch immenfe perfections , and of receiving new improvements to all eternity , shall fall away into nothing ...
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... seems quite extinguished , be fuddenly revived and raised to a flame . The act of last ses fion for naturalizing Jews , has very unexpectedly admi- niftered fuel to feed that flame . To what a height it may rife , if it should continue ...
... seems quite extinguished , be fuddenly revived and raised to a flame . The act of last ses fion for naturalizing Jews , has very unexpectedly admi- niftered fuel to feed that flame . To what a height it may rife , if it should continue ...
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... seems fo . And yet continued he , were there a point , in which such diffentients ever agreed , this agreement would be no mean argument in favour of its truth and juftnefs . But where , replied I , is this agreement to be found . He ...
... seems fo . And yet continued he , were there a point , in which such diffentients ever agreed , this agreement would be no mean argument in favour of its truth and juftnefs . But where , replied I , is this agreement to be found . He ...
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