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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... mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary cuftom or falfe tafte to discover and correct thofe tones , and habits of fpeaking , which are grofs deviations . from nature , and as far as they prevail must destroy ...
... mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary cuftom or falfe tafte to discover and correct thofe tones , and habits of fpeaking , which are grofs deviations . from nature , and as far as they prevail must destroy ...
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... mind of the reader the full import of the whole . It is in the power of emphasis to make long and complex fentences appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necef- fary , that the reader fhould be perfectly ...
... mind of the reader the full import of the whole . It is in the power of emphasis to make long and complex fentences appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necef- fary , that the reader fhould be perfectly ...
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... minds , we naturally discover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the countenance , and by other well - known figns . And even when we speak . without any of the more violent emotions , fome kind ...
... minds , we naturally discover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the countenance , and by other well - known figns . And even when we speak . without any of the more violent emotions , fome kind ...
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... Mind . Lord Chesterfield 95 VIII . On Good Sense Melmoth 98 IX . On Study Bacon 99 X. On Satirical Wit Sterne 100 XI . Hamlet's Inftructions to the Players Shakespear 101 XII . The prefent condition of Man vindicated Pope 103 XIII . On ...
... Mind . Lord Chesterfield 95 VIII . On Good Sense Melmoth 98 IX . On Study Bacon 99 X. On Satirical Wit Sterne 100 XI . Hamlet's Inftructions to the Players Shakespear 101 XII . The prefent condition of Man vindicated Pope 103 XIII . On ...
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... mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur ...
... mind , and a good confcience , will make a man happy in all conditions . He knows not how to fear , who dares to die . THERE is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur ...
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