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, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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... CHAP . I. The Dervife . Spectator , 19 ibid . 20 II . Turkish Tale .. ibid . 21 III . Avarice and Luxury . IV . Pleasure and Pain . ibid . 23 World . 25 V. Labour . VI . The old Man and his Afs . ibid . 26 VII . Hercules's Choice ...
... CHAP . I. The Dervife . Spectator , 19 ibid . 20 II . Turkish Tale .. ibid . 21 III . Avarice and Luxury . IV . Pleasure and Pain . ibid . 23 World . 25 V. Labour . VI . The old Man and his Afs . ibid . 26 VII . Hercules's Choice ...
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... CHAP . I. On Modefty . II . On Cheerfulness . III . On Sincerity . IV . On Honour . Page Spectator . 62 ibid . 65 Tillotson . 68 Guardian . 71 V. On Good Humour . VI . On the Knowledge of the World . Rambler . 74 ibid . 78 VII . On the ...
... CHAP . I. On Modefty . II . On Cheerfulness . III . On Sincerity . IV . On Honour . Page Spectator . 62 ibid . 65 Tillotson . 68 Guardian . 71 V. On Good Humour . VI . On the Knowledge of the World . Rambler . 74 ibid . 78 VII . On the ...
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... CHAP . XXVI . The Pleasures arifing from a cultivated Imagination . BOOK IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . CHAP . I. On Anger . - II . Virtue our highest Interest . III . The fame Subject . Holland . 122 Harris . 128 ibid . 130 IV . On the ...
... CHAP . XXVI . The Pleasures arifing from a cultivated Imagination . BOOK IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . CHAP . I. On Anger . - II . Virtue our highest Interest . III . The fame Subject . Holland . 122 Harris . 128 ibid . 130 IV . On the ...
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... CHAP . X. Sir Robert Walpole's Reply . XI . Lord Lyttleton's Speech on the Repeal of the Act called the Jew Bill , in the Year 1753 . XII . In Praise of Virtue . Page 168 174 Price . 178 XIII . The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar ...
... CHAP . X. Sir Robert Walpole's Reply . XI . Lord Lyttleton's Speech on the Repeal of the Act called the Jew Bill , in the Year 1753 . XII . In Praise of Virtue . Page 168 174 Price . 178 XIII . The Speech of Brutus on the Death of Cæfar ...
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... CHAP . III . Corporal Trim's Eloquence . IV . The Man of Rofs . V. The Country Clergyman . Page Sterne . 235 Pope . 236 Goldsmith . 238 VI . The Wish . Green . 240 VII . Grongar Hill . Dyer . 243 VIII . Hymn to Adverfity . Gray , 248 IX ...
... CHAP . III . Corporal Trim's Eloquence . IV . The Man of Rofs . V. The Country Clergyman . Page Sterne . 235 Pope . 236 Goldsmith . 238 VI . The Wish . Green . 240 VII . Grongar Hill . Dyer . 243 VIII . Hymn to Adverfity . Gray , 248 IX ...
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