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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... use of for a con- fiderable time at firft : for where there is a uniformly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely impoffible that there fhould be a strong emphasis , natural tones , or any just elocution . AIM at nothing higher , till you ...
... use of for a con- fiderable time at firft : for where there is a uniformly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely impoffible that there fhould be a strong emphasis , natural tones , or any just elocution . AIM at nothing higher , till you ...
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... a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real use of riches , except in the diftribution : The reft is all conceit , A WISE man will defire no more than what he A WISE SELECT SENTENCES.
... a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real use of riches , except in the diftribution : The reft is all conceit , A WISE man will defire no more than what he A WISE SELECT SENTENCES.
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... thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better than a gift ? but C.3 is CHAP . V. ) SELECT SENTENCES . 7.
... thy good deeds , neither use uncom- fortable words , when thou givest any thing . Shall not the dew affuage the heat ? fo is a word better than a gift . Lo , is not a word better than a gift ? but C.3 is CHAP . V. ) SELECT SENTENCES . 7.
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... use this expreffion , I am inclined to to think fo and fo , not confidering that they are then speak- ing the most literal of all truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the ...
... use this expreffion , I am inclined to to think fo and fo , not confidering that they are then speak- ing the most literal of all truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the ...
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... use ; keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check'd for filence But never task'd for speech . THE cloud - clapt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall ...
... use ; keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check'd for filence But never task'd for speech . THE cloud - clapt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall ...
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