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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... sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which affects the human mind , with the most lively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite ...
... sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure which affects the human mind , with the most lively and tranfporting touches , is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite ...
Page 154
... and render men the blind inftruments of thofe very evils , which they fight to avoid . Let us prevent all the crimes and all the horrors that e re те he he Our Set tted -nfl- lete 154 ( Book V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES .
... and render men the blind inftruments of thofe very evils , which they fight to avoid . Let us prevent all the crimes and all the horrors that e re те he he Our Set tted -nfl- lete 154 ( Book V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES .
Page 155
... Set tted -nfl- lete , Gould ers to with What unes ? of our diffen en the ght to horrors that that attend a war of this kind , in which conquest itself is full of calamity , and our most happy victories deserve to be ce- lebrated only by ...
... Set tted -nfl- lete , Gould ers to with What unes ? of our diffen en the ght to horrors that that attend a war of this kind , in which conquest itself is full of calamity , and our most happy victories deserve to be ce- lebrated only by ...
Page 225
... Set honour in one eye , and Death i ' th ' other , And I will look on Death indifferently : For let the gods fo fpeed me , as I love The name of honour more than I fear Death . you , Brutus , CAS . I know that virtue to be in As well as ...
... Set honour in one eye , and Death i ' th ' other , And I will look on Death indifferently : For let the gods fo fpeed me , as I love The name of honour more than I fear Death . you , Brutus , CAS . I know that virtue to be in As well as ...
Page 318
... set him upon his legs.- -IN a fortnight or three weeks , added my uncle Toby , fmiling he might march - He will never march , an ' please your honour , in this world , faid the corporal : - He will march ; faid my uncle Toby , rifing up ...
... set him upon his legs.- -IN a fortnight or three weeks , added my uncle Toby , fmiling he might march - He will never march , an ' please your honour , in this world , faid the corporal : - He will march ; faid my uncle Toby , rifing up ...
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