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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... foul by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to fplit the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horfe - back becaufe they cannot walk they bel- low , because they cannot speak . RULE ...
... foul by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to fplit the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horfe - back becaufe they cannot walk they bel- low , because they cannot speak . RULE ...
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... 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 just speak- ing , are deferving of attention ...
... 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 just speak- ing , are deferving of attention ...
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... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur- 1ng to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur- 1ng to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
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... foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the higheft ftate of life is infipid , and with it the loweft is a paradise . СНАР . CHA P. V. ...
... foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the higheft ftate of life is infipid , and with it the loweft is a paradise . СНАР . CHA P. V. ...
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... foul . He who tells a lie is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes : for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every ...
... foul . He who tells a lie is not fenfible how great a task he un- dertakes : for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . SOME people will never learn any thing , for this reason , because they understand every ...
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