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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... feen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . RULE V. Pronounce every Word confifting of more than one Syllable with its proper Accent . THERE is a neceffity for this direction , because ...
... feen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . RULE V. Pronounce every Word confifting of more than one Syllable with its proper Accent . THERE is a neceffity for this direction , because ...
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... feen in their old places of refidence , there was no perfon vicious who had not fome good in him ; nor any per- fon fo virtuous , who had not in him fome evil . The truth of it is , they generally found upon fearch , that in the most ...
... feen in their old places of refidence , there was no perfon vicious who had not fome good in him ; nor any per- fon fo virtuous , who had not in him fome evil . The truth of it is , they generally found upon fearch , that in the most ...
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... feen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's misadventure . The man feemed to lament it much ; and it inftantly brought into my mind Sancho's lamentation for his ; but E 3 CHAP . 9 . 53 NARRATIVE PIECES . Mrs Barbauld 19 The ...
... feen dead in the road , which had occafioned La Fleur's misadventure . The man feemed to lament it much ; and it inftantly brought into my mind Sancho's lamentation for his ; but E 3 CHAP . 9 . 53 NARRATIVE PIECES . Mrs Barbauld 19 The ...
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... feen their mutual flame , And feen it long unmov'd ; Then with a father's frown at last , He fternly CHAP . 15 . 69 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... feen their mutual flame , And feen it long unmov'd ; Then with a father's frown at last , He fternly CHAP . 15 . 69 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... feen to laugh . Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these ex- ceptions ; it is of a serious and composed nature : it does . not throw the mind into a condition improper for the prefent ftate of humanity , and is very ...
... feen to laugh . Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these ex- ceptions ; it is of a serious and composed nature : it does . not throw the mind into a condition improper for the prefent ftate of humanity , and is very ...
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