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 ... |
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Page xxxii
... Scythian Ambaffadors to Alexander . ibid . Galgacus the General of the Caledonii to his Army , to in- cite them to Action against the Romans . Tacitus . The Earl of Arundel's Speech propofing an Accommodation between Henry II . and ...
... Scythian Ambaffadors to Alexander . ibid . Galgacus the General of the Caledonii to his Army , to in- cite them to Action against the Romans . Tacitus . The Earl of Arundel's Speech propofing an Accommodation between Henry II . and ...
Page 146
... SCYTHIAN AMBASSADORS то ALEXANDER . IF your perfon were as gigantic , as your defires , the world would not contain ... Scythians , or the Scy- thians with you ? We have never invaded Macedon : why fhould you attack Scythia ? We inhabit ...
... SCYTHIAN AMBASSADORS то ALEXANDER . IF your perfon were as gigantic , as your defires , the world would not contain ... Scythians , or the Scy- thians with you ? We have never invaded Macedon : why fhould you attack Scythia ? We inhabit ...
Page 147
... Scythians , we present you with a yoke of oxen , an arrow , and a goblet . We use these respectively in our commerce ... Scythia , and obferve how extenfive a territory we inhabit . But to conquer us is quite another bufinefs . Your army ...
... Scythians , we present you with a yoke of oxen , an arrow , and a goblet . We use these respectively in our commerce ... Scythia , and obferve how extenfive a territory we inhabit . But to conquer us is quite another bufinefs . Your army ...
Page 148
... Scythians attack with no less vigour than they fly . Why should we put you in mind of the vast- nefs of the country you will have to conquer ? The defarts of Scythia are commonly talked of in Greece ; and all the world knows , that our ...
... Scythians attack with no less vigour than they fly . Why should we put you in mind of the vast- nefs of the country you will have to conquer ? The defarts of Scythia are commonly talked of in Greece ; and all the world knows , that our ...
Page 149
... Scythians are not used to promife ; but to per- form without promifing . And they think an appeal to the gods fuperfluous ; for that thofe , who have no regard for the esteem of men , will not hesitate to offend the gods , by perjury ...
... Scythians are not used to promife ; but to per- form without promifing . And they think an appeal to the gods fuperfluous ; for that thofe , who have no regard for the esteem of men , will not hesitate to offend the gods , by perjury ...
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