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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... , upon trial , that they mislead inftead of afsist the reader , by not leaving him at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings . THE THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , laying fo xxiv AN ESSAY ON.
... , upon trial , that they mislead inftead of afsist the reader , by not leaving him at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings . THE THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , laying fo xxiv AN ESSAY ON.
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... leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest ftrefs on con- junctive particles , and other words of fecondary importance . These ...
... leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest ftrefs on con- junctive particles , and other words of fecondary importance . These ...
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... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the most ...
... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . Ir is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the most ...
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... Leave not a wreck behind ! we are fuch stuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . OUR indiscretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity ...
... Leave not a wreck behind ! we are fuch stuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . OUR indiscretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity ...
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... caravanfary ? Sire , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majesty a question or two . Who were the perfons that lodged in this houfe houfe when it was firft built ? The king replied NARRATIVE PIECES I-18 The Dervife Spectator,
... caravanfary ? Sire , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majesty a question or two . Who were the perfons that lodged in this houfe houfe when it was firft built ? The king replied NARRATIVE PIECES I-18 The Dervife Spectator,
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