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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... whole conversation and manners . It is not unreasonable even to expect , that they who are habitually conversant with beautiful forms in nature and art , and are frequently employed in contemplat- ing excellent characters in the pages ...
... whole conversation and manners . It is not unreasonable even to expect , that they who are habitually conversant with beautiful forms in nature and art , and are frequently employed in contemplat- ing excellent characters in the pages ...
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... whole . Denique sit quidvis simplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a sentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arising from the subject , it may be nothing better than a censurable ...
... whole . Denique sit quidvis simplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a sentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arising from the subject , it may be nothing better than a censurable ...
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... whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds , to be taken with every appearance , and ...
... whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds , to be taken with every appearance , and ...
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... whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a ...
... whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing . When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , " The earth can- not bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . " Parmenio , a ...
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... whole heart , and forget not the sorrows of thy mother ; how canst thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? There is nothing so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of talkers will be telling such things as ...
... whole heart , and forget not the sorrows of thy mother ; how canst thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? There is nothing so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of talkers will be telling such things as ...
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