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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Page xiii
... perfon . This is the cafe , for example , in Shakespeare's " All the world's a ftage , " & c . and in his description of the Queen of the Fairies * . RULE IV . Pronounce your words with propriety and elegance . Ir is not easy to fix ...
... perfon . This is the cafe , for example , in Shakespeare's " All the world's a ftage , " & c . and in his description of the Queen of the Fairies * . RULE IV . Pronounce your words with propriety and elegance . Ir is not easy to fix ...
Page xlv
... perfon or fubject to another . But there feems to be no fufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained fome authority , that a writer , for the fake of diftinctness , fhould confine himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought ...
... perfon or fubject to another . But there feems to be no fufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained fome authority , that a writer , for the fake of diftinctness , fhould confine himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought ...
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... perfon who commends you , is to be confidered before you fet a value on his efteem . The wife man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous , the reft of the world him who is moft wealthy . THE temperate man's pleasures are durable ...
... perfon who commends you , is to be confidered before you fet a value on his efteem . The wife man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous , the reft of the world him who is moft wealthy . THE temperate man's pleasures are durable ...
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... perfon fupports , the more he fhould regard his minutest actions . EVERY perfon infenfibly fixes upon fome degree of re- finement in his difcourfe , fome measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this ...
... perfon fupports , the more he fhould regard his minutest actions . EVERY perfon infenfibly fixes upon fome degree of re- finement in his difcourfe , fome measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this ...
Page 17
... perfons that lodged in this houfe when it was firit built ? The king replied , his anceflors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that ...
... perfons that lodged in this houfe when it was firit built ? The king replied , his anceflors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that ...
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