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 195
... uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ' please your honour , faid the . corporal ( doubtingly ) ? I AM not much verfed , corporal , quoth my uncle Toby , in things of that kind ; but I suppose , God would not leave him without one , any ...
... uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ' please your honour , faid the . corporal ( doubtingly ) ? I AM not much verfed , corporal , quoth my uncle Toby , in things of that kind ; but I suppose , God would not leave him without one , any ...
Page 196
... uncle Toby.- -ONLY , cried the corporal , shaking his head , be- cause she has no one to ftand up for her- -'Tis that very thing , Trim , quoth my uncle Toby , which recommends her to protection , and her brethren with her ; ' tis the ...
... uncle Toby.- -ONLY , cried the corporal , shaking his head , be- cause she has no one to ftand up for her- -'Tis that very thing , Trim , quoth my uncle Toby , which recommends her to protection , and her brethren with her ; ' tis the ...
Page 309
... uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's houfe in town , in or- der to lay fome of the fineft fieges to some of the fineft forti- fied cities in Europe - when my uncle Toby was one even- ing getting his fupper , with ...
... uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's houfe in town , in or- der to lay fome of the fineft fieges to some of the fineft forti- fied cities in Europe - when my uncle Toby was one even- ing getting his fupper , with ...
Page 310
... uncle Toby ; and thou fhalt drink the poor gen → tleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , and take a couple of bottles , with my fervice , and tell him he is heartily welcome to them , and to a dozen more , if they will do him good ...
... uncle Toby ; and thou fhalt drink the poor gen → tleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , and take a couple of bottles , with my fervice , and tell him he is heartily welcome to them , and to a dozen more , if they will do him good ...
Page 311
... uncle Toby . TRIM faid my uncle Toby , after he lighted his ' pipe and fmoked about a dozen whiffs.Trim came in front of his master and made his bow ; -my uncle Toby smoked on , and faid no more . -Corporal ! faid my uncle Toby -the ...
... uncle Toby . TRIM faid my uncle Toby , after he lighted his ' pipe and fmoked about a dozen whiffs.Trim came in front of his master and made his bow ; -my uncle Toby smoked on , and faid no more . -Corporal ! faid my uncle Toby -the ...
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