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A N infipid flatness and languor is an almost universal fault in reading; and even
public speakers often suffer their words to drop from their lips with such a faint
and feeble utterance, that they appear neither to understand or feel what they say
...
A N infipid flatness and languor is an almost universal fault in reading; and even
public speakers often suffer their words to drop from their lips with such a faint
and feeble utterance, that they appear neither to understand or feel what they say
...
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to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill
or foolish thing. - WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide
Asia equally with him, he answered, the earth cannot Alexander's, hearing the ...
to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill
or foolish thing. - WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide
Asia equally with him, he answered, the earth cannot Alexander's, hearing the ...
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... what he saith they extol it to the clouds; but if a poor man speak, they say, what
fellow is this *. - MANY have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as
have fallen by the tongue: Well is he that is defended from it, and hath not ...
... what he saith they extol it to the clouds; but if a poor man speak, they say, what
fellow is this *. - MANY have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as
have fallen by the tongue: Well is he that is defended from it, and hath not ...
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LEARNING is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the
world in skilful hands; in unskilful, most mischievous. A MAN should never be
ashamed to own he has been in C 5 the the wrong; which is but saying, in other ...
LEARNING is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the
world in skilful hands; in unskilful, most mischievous. A MAN should never be
ashamed to own he has been in C 5 the the wrong; which is but saying, in other ...
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the wrong; which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was
yesterday. - Whe Rever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for
granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowe Rs of ...
the wrong; which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was
yesterday. - Whe Rever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for
granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowe Rs of ...
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| Title | 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 W. Enfield, ... |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Publisher | A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2016 |
| Length | 405 pages |
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