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 |
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Page 48
... fafe retreat of health and peace , A humble cottage stood . There beauteous EMMA flourish'd fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whose only wifh on earth was now . To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave ...
... fafe retreat of health and peace , A humble cottage stood . There beauteous EMMA flourish'd fair Beneath a mother's eye , Whose only wifh on earth was now . To fee her bleft , and die . The fofteft blush that nature spreads , Gave ...
Page 125
... fafe , proper , and effectual manner , with- out the affiftance of anger , than with it . He will be defpif- ed and neglected , you fay , if he appears to have no refent- ment . You should rather fay , if he appears to have no fedate ...
... fafe , proper , and effectual manner , with- out the affiftance of anger , than with it . He will be defpif- ed and neglected , you fay , if he appears to have no refent- ment . You should rather fay , if he appears to have no fedate ...
Page 160
... fafe as long as there is a standing army in the country . Armies , Sir , have no regard to hereditary fuccefions . The first two Cæfars at Rome did pretty well , and found means to keep their armies in tolerable fubjection , because the ...
... fafe as long as there is a standing army in the country . Armies , Sir , have no regard to hereditary fuccefions . The first two Cæfars at Rome did pretty well , and found means to keep their armies in tolerable fubjection , because the ...
Page 161
... fafe opportunity for reducing at least a part of our regular forces , we never can expect to fee any reduction ; and this nation , already over . burdened with debts and taxes , must be loaded with the heavy charge of perpetually ...
... fafe opportunity for reducing at least a part of our regular forces , we never can expect to fee any reduction ; and this nation , already over . burdened with debts and taxes , must be loaded with the heavy charge of perpetually ...
Page 163
... fafe and moft ingenious way of enflaving a nation . It was very well known , that arbitrary power , if it was open and avowed , would never prevail here . The people were therefore amufed with the fpecious form of their ancient ...
... fafe and moft ingenious way of enflaving a nation . It was very well known , that arbitrary power , if it was open and avowed , would never prevail here . The people were therefore amufed with the fpecious form of their ancient ...
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affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beft blifs bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar caufe Dæmons defire eafy eyes fafe faid my uncle fame fecure feems feen fenfe ferve fervice fhade fhall fhew fhould fide fince firft fleep fmiles fome fomething fool foon foul fpeak fpirit FRAM ftand ftate ftill ftrange fubject fuch fuffer fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houfe IAGO intereft itſelf juft king laft lefs Long Parliaments Lord MACD meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature never o'er obferve occafion paffion pafs pain perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praife prefent purfue raiſe reafon refpect reft rife Scythians SHAKESPEAR ſhall ſhe SIR JOHN ſpeak ſtate STERL Syphax Theana thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe wife yourſelf