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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... firft established , and has been uniformly con- ducted , on the extenfive plan of providing a proper courfe of Inftruction for young men in the most ufeful branches of Science and Literature , you have feen many refpectable characters ...
... firft established , and has been uniformly con- ducted , on the extenfive plan of providing a proper courfe of Inftruction for young men in the most ufeful branches of Science and Literature , you have feen many refpectable characters ...
Page ix
... firft : for where there is a uniformly rapid utter- it is abfolutely impoffible that there should be ftrong emphafis , natural tones , or any juft elocution . ance , AIM at nothing higher , till you can read dif- tinctly and ...
... firft : for where there is a uniformly rapid utter- it is abfolutely impoffible that there should be ftrong emphafis , natural tones , or any juft elocution . ance , AIM at nothing higher , till you can read dif- tinctly and ...
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... firft trodden by himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclineables ; Conjunction , prepofition , adverb , join To ftamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monofyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY ...
... firft trodden by himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclineables ; Conjunction , prepofition , adverb , join To ftamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monofyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY ...
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... firft , and then rebuke . Ir thou wouldeft get a friend , prove him first and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE not an old friend , for ...
... firft , and then rebuke . Ir thou wouldeft get a friend , prove him first and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occafions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . FORSAKE not an old friend , for ...
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... firft built ? The king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him ...
... firft built ? The king replied , His ancestors . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at prefent ? The king told him ...
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