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 195
... faid my uncle Toby - she had fuffered per- fecution , Trim , and had learnt mercy- -SHE was good , an ' please your ... my uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ' please your honour , faid the corporal ( doubtingly ) I AM not much verfed ...
... faid my uncle Toby - she had fuffered per- fecution , Trim , and had learnt mercy- -SHE was good , an ' please your ... my uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ' please your honour , faid the corporal ( doubtingly ) I AM not much verfed ...
Page 196
... the fortune of war which has put the whip into our hands now ——— where it may be hereafter , Heaven knows.but be it where it will , the brave , Trim , will not use it unkindly . God forbid , faid the corporal . AMEN , refponded my uncle ...
... the fortune of war which has put the whip into our hands now ——— where it may be hereafter , Heaven knows.but be it where it will , the brave , Trim , will not use it unkindly . God forbid , faid the corporal . AMEN , refponded my uncle ...
Page 309
... my and about as many , after the time , that my uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's houfe in ... faid the landlord , who has been taken ill at my houfe four days ago , and has never held up his head fince , or had ...
... my and about as many , after the time , that my uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's houfe in ... faid the landlord , who has been taken ill at my houfe four days ago , and has never held up his head fince , or had ...
Page 310
... the poor gen- tleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , and take a cou- ple of bottles with my fervice , and tell him he is heartily welcome to them , and to a dozen more if they will do him good . THOUGH I am perfuaded , faid my uncle ...
... the poor gen- tleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , and take a cou- ple of bottles with my fervice , and tell him he is heartily welcome to them , and to a dozen more if they will do him good . THOUGH I am perfuaded , faid my uncle ...
Page 311
... the room a little , faid my uncle Toby.- TRIN ! -faid my uncle Toby , after he lighted his pipe , and fmoaked about a dozen whiffs . Trim came in front of his master and made his bow ; -my uncle Toby smoaked on , and faid no more Corporal !
... the room a little , faid my uncle Toby.- TRIN ! -faid my uncle Toby , after he lighted his pipe , and fmoaked about a dozen whiffs . Trim came in front of his master and made his bow ; -my uncle Toby smoaked on , and faid no more Corporal !
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