Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking: To which are Prefixed Elements of Gesture, Illustrated by Four Plates, and Rules for Expressing with Propriety the Various Passions &c. of the Mind. Also, an Appendix Containing Concise Lessons on a New Plan |
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... enemy in your power , and yet to do him good is the greatest heroism . Modesty , were it to be recommended for nothing else , leaves a man at ease , by pretending to little ; whereas , vain glory re- quires perpetual labour , to appear ...
... enemy in your power , and yet to do him good is the greatest heroism . Modesty , were it to be recommended for nothing else , leaves a man at ease , by pretending to little ; whereas , vain glory re- quires perpetual labour , to appear ...
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... enemy , with a frankness of heart , which is natural to him , that he believed they should be very good friends , were it not for the instigation of Poverty , that pernicious counsellor , who inade an ill use of his ear , and filled him ...
... enemy , with a frankness of heart , which is natural to him , that he believed they should be very good friends , were it not for the instigation of Poverty , that pernicious counsellor , who inade an ill use of his ear , and filled him ...
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... enemy to your own enjoyment , - if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment of a classical and liberal education , with reluctance . Value duly the opportunities you enjoy , and which are denied to thousands of your ...
... enemy to your own enjoyment , - if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment of a classical and liberal education , with reluctance . Value duly the opportunities you enjoy , and which are denied to thousands of your ...
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... enemy with the violence of a torrent , and carried all before him ; the latter , waiting until he saw the force of his rival begin to abate , recov- ered in the end , not only all that he had lost , but made new ac- quisitions . Few of ...
... enemy with the violence of a torrent , and carried all before him ; the latter , waiting until he saw the force of his rival begin to abate , recov- ered in the end , not only all that he had lost , but made new ac- quisitions . Few of ...
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... enemy , met his sister , who was to have been married to one of the Curiatii . Seeing her brother dressed in her lover's coat of armour , which she herself had wrought , she could not contain her grief . She shed a flood of tears , she ...
... enemy , met his sister , who was to have been married to one of the Curiatii . Seeing her brother dressed in her lover's coat of armour , which she herself had wrought , she could not contain her grief . She shed a flood of tears , she ...
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