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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... muft , in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual . And , perhaps , the only in- struction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Observe in what manner the several emotions or paffions are ex- preffed ...
... muft , in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual . And , perhaps , the only in- struction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Observe in what manner the several emotions or paffions are ex- preffed ...
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... and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . .5.
... and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . .5.
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... muft pafs his whole life without . faying or doing one ill or foolish thing . WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the earth cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings ...
... muft pafs his whole life without . faying or doing one ill or foolish thing . WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the earth cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings ...
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... muft lay down this as an es- tablished truth , that there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour . The Gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleafure . If you would gain the favour of the ...
... muft lay down this as an es- tablished truth , that there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour . The Gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleafure . If you would gain the favour of the ...
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... muft fee That angel face no more ! I feel , I feel this breaking heart Beat high against my fide : From her white arm down funk her head , She fhiver'd , figh'd , and died .. MALLET . CHA P. XVI . CELADON AND A MELI A. " T " IS ...
... muft fee That angel face no more ! I feel , I feel this breaking heart Beat high against my fide : From her white arm down funk her head , She fhiver'd , figh'd , and died .. MALLET . CHA P. XVI . CELADON AND A MELI A. " T " IS ...
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