The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 |
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... Cæfar Sha . 197 Tacitus 168 14 Gloucefter's Speech lb. 198 1 CHAP I On Happiness BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . СНАР . 16 On Virtue 17 On Verfification 18 Leffons of Wisdom 19 Against Epiftle PAGE Armstrong 125 Indolence ; an Akenfide 134 lb 137 ...
... Cæfar Sha . 197 Tacitus 168 14 Gloucefter's Speech lb. 198 1 CHAP I On Happiness BOOK VI . DIALOGUES . СНАР . 16 On Virtue 17 On Verfification 18 Leffons of Wisdom 19 Against Epiftle PAGE Armstrong 125 Indolence ; an Akenfide 134 lb 137 ...
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... Cæfar ? Where was there ever an army that had served their coun- try more faithfully ? That army was commanded general- ly by the best citizens of Rome , by men of great fortune and figure in their country ; yet that army enslaved their ...
... Cæfar ? Where was there ever an army that had served their coun- try more faithfully ? That army was commanded general- ly by the best citizens of Rome , by men of great fortune and figure in their country ; yet that army enslaved their ...
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... Cæfar's , to him I fay that Brutus ' love to Cæfar was no less than his . If then that friend demand , why Brutus rofe againft Cæfar , this is my answer : Not that I loved Cæfar lefs , but that I loved Rome more . Had you rather Cæfar ...
... Cæfar's , to him I fay that Brutus ' love to Cæfar was no less than his . If then that friend demand , why Brutus rofe againft Cæfar , this is my answer : Not that I loved Cæfar lefs , but that I loved Rome more . Had you rather Cæfar ...
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... Cæfar did no more.— These words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and cheerfully bade me good - morrow . I could not return his compliment with an equal gaiety , being intent , fomewhat more than usual ...
... Cæfar did no more.— These words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and cheerfully bade me good - morrow . I could not return his compliment with an equal gaiety , being intent , fomewhat more than usual ...
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... Cæfar did no more . It was thus , as I remember , not long fince , you ' were expreffing yourself . And yet fuppofe their fortunes to have been exactly parallel - Which would you have preferred ? Would you have been Cæfar , or Brutus ...
... Cæfar did no more . It was thus , as I remember , not long fince , you ' were expreffing yourself . And yet fuppofe their fortunes to have been exactly parallel - Which would you have preferred ? Would you have been Cæfar , or Brutus ...
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