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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... himself , when he ap- pears before the public , to confider the business he has to perform in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Orator has of late of- ten been ...
... himself , when he ap- pears before the public , to confider the business he has to perform in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Orator has of late of- ten been ...
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... himself forth to public view under the cha- racter of a Spouter , and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial elo- quence , though the unfkilful may gaze and ap- plaud , the judicious cannot but be grieved ...
... himself forth to public view under the cha- racter of a Spouter , and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial elo- quence , though the unfkilful may gaze and ap- plaud , the judicious cannot but be grieved ...
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... himself to be deceived by her favours : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . None more impatiently fuffer injuries , than those that are moft forward in doing them . By taking revenge ...
... himself to be deceived by her favours : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man , but refts only in the bofom of fools . None more impatiently fuffer injuries , than those that are moft forward in doing them . By taking revenge ...
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... himself . WE should take a prudent care for the future , but fo as to enjoy the prefent . It is no part of wisdom , to be mifer- able to - day , because we may happen to be fo to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to ...
... himself . WE should take a prudent care for the future , but fo as to enjoy the prefent . It is no part of wisdom , to be mifer- able to - day , because we may happen to be fo to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to ...
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... himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an eftate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world . A CHA P. IV . N angry man who fuppreffes his paffions , thinks worfe than he speaks ...
... himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an eftate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world . A CHA P. IV . N angry man who fuppreffes his paffions , thinks worfe than he speaks ...
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