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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Taste |
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... Intereft 3. The fame Subjec Harris 131 Ib . 133 Chap . 4. On the Immortality of the Soul 5. On the Being of a God Page Spectator 133 Young 136 Page 1. Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lucretia Livy 138 2. Hannibal to his Soldiers Ib ...
... Intereft 3. The fame Subjec Harris 131 Ib . 133 Chap . 4. On the Immortality of the Soul 5. On the Being of a God Page Spectator 133 Young 136 Page 1. Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lucretia Livy 138 2. Hannibal to his Soldiers Ib ...
Page xxx
... intereft his feelings . Thofe fcenes in nature , which , from caufes which it is the bufinefs of philofophy to explore , are adapted to excite in the fpectator agree- able perceptions and emotions , may , by the aid of lan- guage , be ...
... intereft his feelings . Thofe fcenes in nature , which , from caufes which it is the bufinefs of philofophy to explore , are adapted to excite in the fpectator agree- able perceptions and emotions , may , by the aid of lan- guage , be ...
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... a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourfelves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide { ; IT 2 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES . Virtue our higheft ...
... a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourfelves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide { ; IT 2 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES . Virtue our higheft ...
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... intereft , and treat those perfons as vifionaries , who dare ftand up in a corrupt age , for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , talents , intereft , or experience of fuch men , 80 Book III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
... intereft , and treat those perfons as vifionaries , who dare ftand up in a corrupt age , for what has not its immediate reward joined to it . The talents , talents , intereft , or experience of fuch men , 80 Book III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
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... intereft , or experience of fuch men , make them very often useful in all parties , and at all times . But what- ever wealth and dignities they may arrive at , they ought to confider , that every one stands as a blot in the annals of ...
... intereft , or experience of fuch men , make them very often useful in all parties , and at all times . But what- ever wealth and dignities they may arrive at , they ought to confider , that every one stands as a blot in the annals of ...
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