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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... I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had paft ; And I lov'd her that she did pity them . This only is the witchcraft I have us'd . SHAKSPEARE . E 6 BOOK BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES . I CHAP . I. CHAP . XIX . ) 61 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... I spake ; She lov'd me for the dangers I had paft ; And I lov'd her that she did pity them . This only is the witchcraft I have us'd . SHAKSPEARE . E 6 BOOK BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES . I CHAP . I. CHAP . XIX . ) 61 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... dangers . Writers of this complexion have obferved , that the facred Perfon who was the great pattern of perfection , was never seen to laugh . CHEERFULNESS of mind is not liable to any of these ex- ceptions : it is of a ferious and ...
... dangers . Writers of this complexion have obferved , that the facred Perfon who was the great pattern of perfection , was never seen to laugh . CHEERFULNESS of mind is not liable to any of these ex- ceptions : it is of a ferious and ...
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... danger and hazard in it it is the fhorteft and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftraight line , and will hold out and last longeft . The arts of deceit and cunning continually grow weaker and lefs effectual and ...
... danger and hazard in it it is the fhorteft and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftraight line , and will hold out and last longeft . The arts of deceit and cunning continually grow weaker and lefs effectual and ...
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... reckoneft upon his friends , his family , his kindred and allies , and muftereft up with them the many recruits which will lift under him F 6 from from a sense of common danger ; ' tis no CHAP . X. ) 85 DIDACTIC PIECES . Bacon Sterne.
... reckoneft upon his friends , his family , his kindred and allies , and muftereft up with them the many recruits which will lift under him F 6 from from a sense of common danger ; ' tis no CHAP . X. ) 85 DIDACTIC PIECES . Bacon Sterne.
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... danger ; ' tis no extravagant arith- metic to fay , that for every ten jokes , thou haft got an hundred enemies ; and , till thou haft gone on , and raised a fwarm of wafps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou ...
... danger ; ' tis no extravagant arith- metic to fay , that for every ten jokes , thou haft got an hundred enemies ; and , till thou haft gone on , and raised a fwarm of wafps about thine ears , and art half stung to death by them , thou ...
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