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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... must always appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the ...
... must always appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the ...
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... must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best method of correcting a uniform cadence , is frequently to read select sen- tences , in which the ftyle is pointed , and ...
... must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best method of correcting a uniform cadence , is frequently to read select sen- tences , in which the ftyle is pointed , and ...
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... , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet found , who would acknowledge himfelf guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
... , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet found , who would acknowledge himfelf guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
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... 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 man hath a thorough taste of ...
... 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 man hath a thorough taste of ...
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... must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reafon ,. because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and dif- interested ...
... must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reafon ,. because they understand every thing too foon . THERE is nothing wanting to make all rational and dif- interested ...
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