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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Page vi
... Against Indolence ; an Epiftle . XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman . XXI . On the Miseries of Human Life , Thomson . 109 XXII . Reflections on a Future State . ibid . 110 XXIII . On Procrastination . XXIV . The Pain arifing from virtuous ...
... Against Indolence ; an Epiftle . XX . Elegy to a young Nobleman . XXI . On the Miseries of Human Life , Thomson . 109 XXII . Reflections on a Future State . ibid . 110 XXIII . On Procrastination . XXIV . The Pain arifing from virtuous ...
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... against Jugurtha , merely on Account of his Extraction . Salluft . 141 IV . Calisthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to Alexander . Quinétus Curtius . 145 V. The Scythian Ambassadors to Alexander . ib . 146 VI . Galgacus the General of ...
... against Jugurtha , merely on Account of his Extraction . Salluft . 141 IV . Calisthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flattery to Alexander . Quinétus Curtius . 145 V. The Scythian Ambassadors to Alexander . ib . 146 VI . Galgacus the General of ...
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... against them in familiar conversation . OTHER defects in articulation regard the complex founds , and confift in a confused and cluttering pro- nunciation of words . The most effectual methods of conquering this habit , are , to read ...
... against them in familiar conversation . OTHER defects in articulation regard the complex founds , and confift in a confused and cluttering pro- nunciation of words . The most effectual methods of conquering this habit , are , to read ...
Page xxi
... against the peculiarities and vul- garifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are : omitting the afpirate h where it ought to be ufed , and inferting ...
... against the peculiarities and vul- garifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are : omitting the afpirate h where it ought to be ufed , and inferting ...
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... against each other : the name of the first was Luxury , and of the second Avarice . The aim of each of them was no less than univerfal monarchy over the hearts of mankind . Luxury had many generals under him , who did him great service ...
... against each other : the name of the first was Luxury , and of the second Avarice . The aim of each of them was no less than univerfal monarchy over the hearts of mankind . Luxury had many generals under him , who did him great service ...
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