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. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ... |
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Page xvii
... wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worfe than he speaks and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He ...
... wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worfe than he speaks and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He ...
Page xxix
... to be admired as an eminent Orator , it is of much more importance to be refpected , as a wife Statef- man , an able Lawyer , or a ufeful Preacher . B 3- im THE THE CONTENT S. BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCE S. Page 1 ELOCUTION . xxix.
... to be admired as an eminent Orator , it is of much more importance to be refpected , as a wife Statef- man , an able Lawyer , or a ufeful Preacher . B 3- im THE THE CONTENT S. BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCE S. Page 1 ELOCUTION . xxix.
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... 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 ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to ...
... 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 ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to ...
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... wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may ...
... wife but by his own wisdom . He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning ; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself . It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may ...
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... force of ill will , and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . .
... force of ill will , and ill nature . Ir is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . .
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