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 xxii
... fe- veral claufes of a sentence , gives to every part its proper found , and thus conveys to the mind of the reader the full import of the whole . It is in the power power of emphafis to make long and complex fen-- tences xxii AN ESSAY ON.
... fe- veral claufes of a sentence , gives to every part its proper found , and thus conveys to the mind of the reader the full import of the whole . It is in the power power of emphafis to make long and complex fen-- tences xxii AN ESSAY ON.
Page xxxiii
... whole , of a sentence . I HAVE only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just elocution , and this with the greatest fuccefs , there is fome difficulty in carrying the art of fpeaking out of the fchool or ...
... whole , of a sentence . I HAVE only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just elocution , and this with the greatest fuccefs , there is fome difficulty in carrying the art of fpeaking out of the fchool or ...
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... whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and ...
... whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and ...
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... whole life without faying or doing one ill or foolish thing . WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the earth cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend ...
... whole life without faying or doing one ill or foolish thing . WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the earth cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend ...
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... whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother : how canft thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as ...
... whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother : how canft thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as ...
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