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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... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker feems to expect an answer , fhould al- most always be elevated at the clofe , with a pe- culiar tone , to indicate that a queftion is afked . Some fentences are fo ...
... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker feems to expect an answer , fhould al- most always be elevated at the clofe , with a pe- culiar tone , to indicate that a queftion is afked . Some fentences are fo ...
Page 7
... fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and ...
... fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken , and ...
Page 15
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX . SELECT ...
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX . SELECT ...
Page 33
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story ...
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story ...
Page 36
... fall up the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . " I SHALL find , faid he , fome other way to get it off . " WHEN the Marquis had faid this , he returned his fword into ist fcabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it - and ...
... fall up the place : I could not be deceived by what followed . " I SHALL find , faid he , fome other way to get it off . " WHEN the Marquis had faid this , he returned his fword into ist fcabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it - and ...
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