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 141
... CHA P. III . LIVY . C. MARIUS TO THE ROMANS , ON THEIR HESITA- TING TO APPOINT HIM GENERAL IN THE EXPE- DITION AGAINST JUGURTHA , MERELY ON AC- COUNT OF HIS EXTRACTION . IT is but too common , my countrymen , to obferve a ma- terial ...
... CHA P. III . LIVY . C. MARIUS TO THE ROMANS , ON THEIR HESITA- TING TO APPOINT HIM GENERAL IN THE EXPE- DITION AGAINST JUGURTHA , MERELY ON AC- COUNT OF HIS EXTRACTION . IT is but too common , my countrymen , to obferve a ma- terial ...
Page 184
... cha- racter . Suppose , faid he , it fhould be mankind ; the whole human race . Would you not think it fomething ftrange to feek of those concerning Good , who pursue it a thousand ways , and many of them contradictory ? I confefs ...
... cha- racter . Suppose , faid he , it fhould be mankind ; the whole human race . Would you not think it fomething ftrange to feek of those concerning Good , who pursue it a thousand ways , and many of them contradictory ? I confefs ...
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... CHA P. II . THE SAME SUBJECT . BRUTUS perished untimely , and Cæfar did no more.— These words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and cheerfully bade me good - morrow . I could not return his compliment ...
... CHA P. II . THE SAME SUBJECT . BRUTUS perished untimely , and Cæfar did no more.— These words I was repeating the next day to myself , when my friend appeared , and cheerfully bade me good - morrow . I could not return his compliment ...
Page 320
... CHA P. II . YORICK'S DEATH . སྐ A FEW hours before Yorick breathed his laft , Eugenius ftept in with an intent to take his last fight and last farewell of him . Upon his drawing Yorick's curtain , and afking how he felt himself , Yorick ...
... CHA P. II . YORICK'S DEATH . སྐ A FEW hours before Yorick breathed his laft , Eugenius ftept in with an intent to take his last fight and last farewell of him . Upon his drawing Yorick's curtain , and afking how he felt himself , Yorick ...
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