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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... honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . ALIAB A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like truth , SELECT SENTENCES . Book 1 .
... honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . ALIAB A LIAR begins with making falfhood appear like truth , SELECT SENTENCES . Book 1 .
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... appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfhood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of tafte ; and we fhould as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in discourse , as we would puns , bad language , or ...
... appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falfhood . VIRTUE fhould be confidered as a part of tafte ; and we fhould as much avoid deceit , or finifter meanings in discourse , as we would puns , bad language , or ...
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... , which she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture mixture of affectation in all her geftures . She had CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... , which she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture mixture of affectation in all her geftures . She had CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... appear- ance , but fo foft and gentle a mien that she was beloved to a degree of enthusiasm . Her voice was low and plaintive , but inexpreffibly sweet ; and fhe loved to lie for hours toge- ther on the banks of fome wild and melancholy ...
... appear- ance , but fo foft and gentle a mien that she was beloved to a degree of enthusiasm . Her voice was low and plaintive , but inexpreffibly sweet ; and fhe loved to lie for hours toge- ther on the banks of fome wild and melancholy ...
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... primrose pale So morning dews appear . But oh ! his fifter's jealous care ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to fay , MY EDWIN , live for me . Now Now homeward as the hopeless went , The church - 50 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
... primrose pale So morning dews appear . But oh ! his fifter's jealous care ( A cruel fifter fhe ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to fay , MY EDWIN , live for me . Now Now homeward as the hopeless went , The church - 50 NARRATIVE PIECES . Book II .
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