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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... perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint the lover as he stood , ' Pierc'd by fevere amazement , hating life , E 2 ...
... perfection ! " From his void embrace , ( Myfterious Heaven ! ) that moment , to the ground , A blacken'd corfe , was ftruck the beauteous maid . But who can paint the lover as he stood , ' Pierc'd by fevere amazement , hating life , E 2 ...
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... perfection , was never seen to laugh . CHEERFULNESS of mind is not liable to any of these ex- ceptions : it is of a ferious and compofed nature : it does not throw the mind into a condition improper for the prefent ftate of humanity ...
... perfection , was never seen to laugh . CHEERFULNESS of mind is not liable to any of these ex- ceptions : it is of a ferious and compofed nature : it does not throw the mind into a condition improper for the prefent ftate of humanity ...
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... perfection , and confequently an increase of happi- nefs ? The consciousness of such a being spreads a perpetual diffufion of joy through the foul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he ...
... perfection , and confequently an increase of happi- nefs ? The consciousness of such a being spreads a perpetual diffufion of joy through the foul of a virtuous man , and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he ...
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... perfection , That aids and strengthens Virtue when it meets her , And imitates her actions where she is not . It ought not to be sported with : - CATO . IN the fecond place , we are to confider those who have mistaken notions of honour ...
... perfection , That aids and strengthens Virtue when it meets her , And imitates her actions where she is not . It ought not to be sported with : - CATO . IN the fecond place , we are to confider those who have mistaken notions of honour ...
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... perfection to human abilities , are furprifed to fee men wrinkled with study , yet wanting to be inftructed in the minute circumstances of propriety , or the neceffary forms of daily tranfaction ; and quickly shake off their reverence ...
... perfection to human abilities , are furprifed to fee men wrinkled with study , yet wanting to be inftructed in the minute circumstances of propriety , or the neceffary forms of daily tranfaction ; and quickly shake off their reverence ...
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