Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... , if he attempts to say any thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to falter , and confounds his utterance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all 303 ELEMENTS 30.
... , if he attempts to say any thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to falter , and confounds his utterance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all 303 ELEMENTS 30.
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... thousand different ges- tures , motions , airs , and looks , according to the character which the person affects . Affectation of learning gives a stiff formality to the whole person . The words come stalk- ing out with the pace of a ...
... thousand different ges- tures , motions , airs , and looks , according to the character which the person affects . Affectation of learning gives a stiff formality to the whole person . The words come stalk- ing out with the pace of a ...
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... thousand other mate- rials , sufficient to have furnished a whole street of toyshops . One of the women , having a husband who was none of the heaviest , was bringing him off upon her shoulders , at the same time that she carried a ...
... thousand other mate- rials , sufficient to have furnished a whole street of toyshops . One of the women , having a husband who was none of the heaviest , was bringing him off upon her shoulders , at the same time that she carried a ...
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... - tunities you enjoy , and which are denied to thousands of your fellow creatures . Without exemplary diligence you will make but a con- temptible SECT . I. ] 73 READING . Address to a young student, Art of Thinking, 52 Dodsley's Fables, ...
... - tunities you enjoy , and which are denied to thousands of your fellow creatures . Without exemplary diligence you will make but a con- temptible SECT . I. ] 73 READING . Address to a young student, Art of Thinking, 52 Dodsley's Fables, ...
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... thousand graces into a pair of garters . If I may , without breach of good manners , imagine that any pretty creature is void of genius , and would perform her part herein but very awkwardly , I must nevertheless in- sist upon her ...
... thousand graces into a pair of garters . If I may , without breach of good manners , imagine that any pretty creature is void of genius , and would perform her part herein but very awkwardly , I must nevertheless in- sist upon her ...
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