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 ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... truth , that to bar able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is sufficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge ...
... truth , that to bar able to speak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is sufficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge ...
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... Truth 15 . Fancy 16. L'Allegro .. 17. Il Penseroso 18. The Progress of Life Collins , 234 Mason , 236- Warton , 238 19. The Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London , 20. Life ... Milton , 242 . ibid . 246 Shakspeare , 250 wid ...
... Truth 15 . Fancy 16. L'Allegro .. 17. Il Penseroso 18. The Progress of Life Collins , 234 Mason , 236- Warton , 238 19. The Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London , 20. Life ... Milton , 242 . ibid . 246 Shakspeare , 250 wid ...
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... Truth is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature to shake off our veracity . There cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By the faults of others , wise men correct their own ...
... Truth is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature to shake off our veracity . There cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By the faults of others , wise men correct their own ...
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... Truth is always consistent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out be . fore we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome , and sets a man's invention ...
... Truth is always consistent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out be . fore we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome , and sets a man's invention ...
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... truth ; understand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not ...
... truth ; understand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not ...
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