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 32
... pleaded the right of an ancient law of the duchy , which , though feldom claimed , he faid , was no lefs in force ; he took his fword from his fide - Here - faid he -take it ; and be trufty guardians of it , till better times put me in ...
... pleaded the right of an ancient law of the duchy , which , though feldom claimed , he faid , was no lefs in force ; he took his fword from his fide - Here - faid he -take it ; and be trufty guardians of it , till better times put me in ...
Page 71
... a very eminent degree . Without affurance he would never have undertaken to fpeak before the moft auguft affembly in the world ; with- out out modefty he would have pleaded the caufe he had CHAP . I. 71 DIDACTIC PIECES .
... a very eminent degree . Without affurance he would never have undertaken to fpeak before the moft auguft affembly in the world ; with- out out modefty he would have pleaded the caufe he had CHAP . I. 71 DIDACTIC PIECES .
Page 72
... pleaded the caufe he had taken upon him , though it had appeared ever fo ícandalous . FROM what has been faid , it is plain , that modesty and affurance are both amiable , and may very well meet in the fame person . When they are thus ...
... pleaded the caufe he had taken upon him , though it had appeared ever fo ícandalous . FROM what has been faid , it is plain , that modesty and affurance are both amiable , and may very well meet in the fame person . When they are thus ...
Page 115
... plead ; Thus on , till wisdom is push'd out of life . Procraftination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals , till all are fled , And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vaft concerns of an eternal scene . Of man's ...
... plead ; Thus on , till wisdom is push'd out of life . Procraftination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals , till all are fled , And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vaft concerns of an eternal scene . Of man's ...
Page 130
... plead inability , when we want an excufe for our own negligence . Was a paffionate man to forfeit a hundred pounds , as often as he was angry , or was he fure he muft die the next moment after the first fallye of his paffion , we should ...
... plead inability , when we want an excufe for our own negligence . Was a paffionate man to forfeit a hundred pounds , as often as he was angry , or was he fure he muft die the next moment after the first fallye of his paffion , we should ...
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affurance againſt aſk Balaam becauſe beſt bofom breaſt Brutus Cæfar caufe CHAP confider Dæmons defire expreffion exprefs eyes fafe faid fame father fecure feems fenfe fentence ferve fhall fhew fhould fide fince firft firſt fmile fome fomething fool foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n herſelf himſelf honour houſe IAGO intereft itſelf juft king laft laſt lefs lord meaſures mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never o'er obferving occafion ourſelves paffion pafs pain perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor praiſe prefent purpoſe raiſed reaſon reft Scythians ſeem ſhall ſhe SIR JOHN ſpeak ſtate ſtep ſtill Syphax taſte Theana thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro uncle Toby underſtand uſe virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom words yourſelf