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... She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express fome particular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the inten- tion of the speaker , or fome accidental circum- stance . The following fhort ...
... She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express fome particular meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the inten- tion of the speaker , or fome accidental circum- stance . The following fhort ...
Page xviii
... she , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflex- ious and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are confiftent with ...
... she , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflex- ious and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are confiftent with ...
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... she has sometimes 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 dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration ...
... she has sometimes 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 dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration ...
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... she determines Herself the glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . WHAT ftronger breaft - plate than a heart untained ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just : And he but naked ( tho ' lock'd up in steel ) Whofe confcience ...
... she determines Herself the glory of a creditor , Both thanks and use . WHAT ftronger breaft - plate than a heart untained ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just : And he but naked ( tho ' lock'd up in steel ) Whofe confcience ...
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... she suffered herself to be debauched by Intem- perance , and at last died in child - birth of Difeafe . Content- ment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the en- ticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after : while ...
... she suffered herself to be debauched by Intem- perance , and at last died in child - birth of Difeafe . Content- ment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the en- ticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after : while ...
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