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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... ourselves emphatically , and feldom place the emphasis improperly . With refpect to artificial helps , fuch as diftinguishing words and claufes of fentences by particular characters or marks ; I believe it will always be found , upon ...
... ourselves emphatically , and feldom place the emphasis improperly . With refpect to artificial helps , fuch as diftinguishing words and claufes of fentences by particular characters or marks ; I believe it will always be found , upon ...
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... ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . Philofophy is then only valuable , when it ferves for the law of life , and not for the oftentation of science . CHAPTER II . WITHOUT ...
... ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . Philofophy is then only valuable , when it ferves for the law of life , and not for the oftentation of science . CHAPTER II . WITHOUT ...
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... ourselves , to thofe we converfe with , and to the great . Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is poffetfed of this excellent frame of mind , is not only easy in his ...
... ourselves , to thofe we converfe with , and to the great . Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is poffetfed of this excellent frame of mind , is not only easy in his ...
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... ourselves , to thofe with whom we converfe , and to him whom we are made to please . 111 SPECTATOR . CHAPTER III . ON SINCERITY . TRUTH and Sincerity have all the advantages of appear- ance , and many more . If the fhow of any thing be ...
... ourselves , to thofe with whom we converfe , and to him whom we are made to please . 111 SPECTATOR . CHAPTER III . ON SINCERITY . TRUTH and Sincerity have all the advantages of appear- ance , and many more . If the fhow of any thing be ...
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... ourselves , will not be long without preference in our affection to those whofe learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit calls all atten- tion from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . It is ...
... ourselves , will not be long without preference in our affection to those whofe learning holds us at the distance of pupils , or whose wit calls all atten- tion from us , and leaves us without importance and without regard . It is ...
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