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 |
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... breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold ut- terance . Practise these rules with perfeverance , till you have acquired ftrength and energy of fpeech . BUT ...
... breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold ut- terance . Practise these rules with perfeverance , till you have acquired ftrength and energy of fpeech . BUT ...
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... breathing . I know of nothing that such a speaker can so properly be compared to , as an alarum - bell , which , when once fet a going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always ...
... breathing . I know of nothing that such a speaker can so properly be compared to , as an alarum - bell , which , when once fet a going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always ...
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... breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is is a tide in the affairs of men , Which ...
... breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and states , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is is a tide in the affairs of men , Which ...
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... breath'd gently forth , Now fhifted east and east by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could fhelter them from rain or fnow , } } } Stepping Stepping into their neft , they paddled , Themselves were 68 NARRATIVE PIECES ...
... breath'd gently forth , Now fhifted east and east by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could fhelter them from rain or fnow , } } } Stepping Stepping into their neft , they paddled , Themselves were 68 NARRATIVE PIECES ...
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... breath to bear . There if Ambition , peftilent and pale , Or luxury fhould taint their vernal glow ; If cold Self - intereft , with her chilling gale , Should blaft th ' unfolding bloffoms ere they blow ; If mimic hues , by Art , or ...
... breath to bear . There if Ambition , peftilent and pale , Or luxury fhould taint their vernal glow ; If cold Self - intereft , with her chilling gale , Should blaft th ' unfolding bloffoms ere they blow ; If mimic hues , by Art , or ...
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