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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... raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a fentence . Some fen- tences are so constructed , that the laft words require a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found ...
... raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a fentence . Some fen- tences are so constructed , that the laft words require a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found ...
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... raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourfelves that we leave them ...
... raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourfelves that we leave them ...
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... raise their heads high while they are empty ; but when full and fwelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . : He that is truly polite , knows how to contradict with refpect , and to please without adulation ; and is equally ...
... raise their heads high while they are empty ; but when full and fwelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . : He that is truly polite , knows how to contradict with refpect , and to please without adulation ; and is equally ...
Page 27
... raised , and raise fuch appetites as nature never planted . You never heard the most delicious mufic , which is the praife of one's self ; nor faw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your vdtaries pass ...
... raised , and raise fuch appetites as nature never planted . You never heard the most delicious mufic , which is the praife of one's self ; nor faw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your vdtaries pass ...
Page 67
... raise a doubt E'en of his father's truth . ' Twas idly done To tell him of another world , for wits Knew better ; and the only good on earth Was pleasure ; not to follow that was fin . Sure he that made us , made us to enjoy ; And why ...
... raise a doubt E'en of his father's truth . ' Twas idly done To tell him of another world , for wits Knew better ; and the only good on earth Was pleasure ; not to follow that was fin . Sure he that made us , made us to enjoy ; And why ...
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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