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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... 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 acquaint- ed with the exact construction and ...
... 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 acquaint- ed with the exact construction and ...
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... whole of a sentence * . I HAVE only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a juft elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is fome diffi- culty in carrying the art of fpeaking out of the school ...
... whole of a sentence * . I HAVE only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a juft elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is fome diffi- culty in carrying the art of fpeaking out of the school ...
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... whole race of cox combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; 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 ...
... whole race of cox combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; 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 ...
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... whole life without faying or doing one ill or foolish thing . WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the ear cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of ...
... whole life without faying or doing one ill or foolish thing . WHEN Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him , he answered , the ear cannot bear two funs , nor Afia two kings . Parmenio , a friend of ...
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... whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother ; how canft thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as ...
... whole heart , and forget not the forrows of thy mother ; how canft thou recompense them the things they have done for thee ? THERE is nothing fo much worth as a mind well in- ftructed . THE lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as ...
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