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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... present condition , and very much perplexed in himself on the state of life he fhould chufe , he faw two women of a larger ftature than ordinary approaching towards him . One of them had a very noble air , and graceful deportment : her ...
... present condition , and very much perplexed in himself on the state of life he fhould chufe , he faw two women of a larger ftature than ordinary approaching towards him . One of them had a very noble air , and graceful deportment : her ...
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... present is very often used to fignify a sheepish awkward fellow , who has neither good breeding , politenefs , nor any knowledge of the world . AGAIN , A man of affurance , though at first it only de- noted a perfon of a free and open ...
... present is very often used to fignify a sheepish awkward fellow , who has neither good breeding , politenefs , nor any knowledge of the world . AGAIN , A man of affurance , though at first it only de- noted a perfon of a free and open ...
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... present opinion of the present person ; he infi- nuates hinfelf only into the esteem of fools , but is foon detected , and furely defpifed by every body elfe . The wife man ( who differs as much from the cunning , as from the choleric ...
... present opinion of the present person ; he infi- nuates hinfelf only into the esteem of fools , but is foon detected , and furely defpifed by every body elfe . The wife man ( who differs as much from the cunning , as from the choleric ...
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... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED . HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prefcrib'd , their present state : From From brutes what men , from men what spirits know CHAP . XII . 93 DIDACTIC PIECES . Page ...
... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED . HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prefcrib'd , their present state : From From brutes what men , from men what spirits know CHAP . XII . 93 DIDACTIC PIECES . Page ...
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... present pow'r Of heav'n and earth furveys th ' immortal page , E'en as a father bleffing , while he reads The praises of his fon ; if then thy foul Spurning the yoke of these inglorious days , Mix in their deeds and kindle with their ...
... present pow'r Of heav'n and earth furveys th ' immortal page , E'en as a father bleffing , while he reads The praises of his fon ; if then thy foul Spurning the yoke of these inglorious days , Mix in their deeds and kindle with their ...
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