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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... whose beauty first fubdued me , and whose wit con- firmed her conqueft ; but whofe beauty now ferves no other purpose than to entitle her to tyranny , and whofe wit is only afed to justify perverfeness . SURELY nothing can be more ...
... whose beauty first fubdued me , and whose wit con- firmed her conqueft ; but whofe beauty now ferves no other purpose than to entitle her to tyranny , and whofe wit is only afed to justify perverfeness . SURELY nothing can be more ...
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... whose opinions they must comply , if they defire to pass their time happily among them . To leffen that difdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world , and the unwil- lingness with which they ...
... whose opinions they must comply , if they defire to pass their time happily among them . To leffen that difdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world , and the unwil- lingness with which they ...
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... , we can prevent the beginnings of fome things , whose progress afterwards we cannot hinder . We can forbear to cast ourselves down from a pre- a precipice , but if once we have taken the CHAP . I. ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . 127.
... , we can prevent the beginnings of fome things , whose progress afterwards we cannot hinder . We can forbear to cast ourselves down from a pre- a precipice , but if once we have taken the CHAP . I. ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . 127.
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... whose pupil I was , before I became their general , I shall march against an army of men , ftrangers to one another . ON what fide foever I turn my eyes , I behold all full of courage and ftrength ; a veteran infantry ; a moft gallant ...
... whose pupil I was , before I became their general , I shall march against an army of men , ftrangers to one another . ON what fide foever I turn my eyes , I behold all full of courage and ftrength ; a veteran infantry ; a moft gallant ...
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... whose nobility was the fruit of their virtue . Do they envy the ho- nours bestowed upon me ?. Let them envy likewise my bours , my abftinence , and the dangers I have undergone for my country ; by which I have acquired them . But those ...
... whose nobility was the fruit of their virtue . Do they envy the ho- nours bestowed upon me ?. Let them envy likewise my bours , my abftinence , and the dangers I have undergone for my country ; by which I have acquired them . But those ...
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