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 W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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... ourselves emphatically , and seldom place the emphasis impro- perly . With respect to artificial helps , fuch as di- stinguishing words and clauses of sentences by par- ticular characters or marks ; I believe it will always be found ...
... ourselves emphatically , and seldom place the emphasis impro- perly . With respect to artificial helps , fuch as di- stinguishing words and clauses of sentences by par- ticular characters or marks ; I believe it will always be found ...
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... ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it serves for the law of life , and not for the oftentation of science . CHAP . II . WITHOUT a ...
... ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it serves for the law of life , and not for the oftentation of science . CHAP . II . WITHOUT a ...
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... ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the most delightful . СНАР . III ...
... ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the most delightful . СНАР . III ...
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... ourselves every where upheld by his goodness , and fur- rounded with an immenfity of love and mercy . In short , we depend upon a Being , whofe power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means , whofe goodness and truth ...
... ourselves every where upheld by his goodness , and fur- rounded with an immenfity of love and mercy . In short , we depend upon a Being , whofe power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means , whofe goodness and truth ...
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... ourselves , to those with whom we converse , and to him whom we are made to please . SPECTATOR CHAP . III . ON SINCERITY .. TRUTH and fincerity have all the advantages of ap pearance , and many more . If the fhew of any thing be good ...
... ourselves , to those with whom we converse , and to him whom we are made to please . SPECTATOR CHAP . III . ON SINCERITY .. TRUTH and fincerity have all the advantages of ap pearance , and many more . If the fhew of any thing be good ...
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