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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... present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cunning to feem to know that he doth not . BACON . -T CHA P. X. ON SATIRICAL WIT . RUST me , this unwary pleafantry of thine will fooner or later bring thee into fcrapes and ...
... present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cunning to feem to know that he doth not . BACON . -T CHA P. X. ON SATIRICAL WIT . RUST me , this unwary pleafantry of thine will fooner or later bring thee into fcrapes and ...
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... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED . EAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate , H All but the page prefcrib'd , their prefent state : From brutes what men , from men what fpirits know , Or who could fuffer Being here below ? The ...
... PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED . EAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate , H All but the page prefcrib'd , their prefent state : From brutes what men , from men what fpirits know , Or who could fuffer Being here below ? The ...
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... present . Pofe Were a human foul thr and in her accomplishments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly , and drop at once into a state of ...
... present . Pofe Were a human foul thr and in her accomplishments , were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements , I could imagine it might fall away infenfibly , and drop at once into a state of ...
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... present you with a yoke of oxen , an arrow , and a goblet . We use these respectively in our commerce with friends , and with foes . We give to our friends the corn , which we raise by the labour of our oxen . With the goblet we join ...
... present you with a yoke of oxen , an arrow , and a goblet . We use these respectively in our commerce with friends , and with foes . We give to our friends the corn , which we raise by the labour of our oxen . With the goblet we join ...
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... present day will prove the be- ginning of univerfal liberty to Britain . For none of us are hitherto debased by slavery ; and we have no profpe & t of a fecure retreat behind us , either by land or fea , whilft the Roman fleet hovers ...
... present day will prove the be- ginning of univerfal liberty to Britain . For none of us are hitherto debased by slavery ; and we have no profpe & t of a fecure retreat behind us , either by land or fea , whilft the Roman fleet hovers ...
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