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... Anger Holland 138 II . Virtue our highest Interest Harris 144 III . The fame Subject Ibid . 146 IV . On the Immortality of the Soul Spectator 147 V. On the Being of a God Young 150 a : 4 BOOK BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . CHAP . Page ...
... Anger Holland 138 II . Virtue our highest Interest Harris 144 III . The fame Subject Ibid . 146 IV . On the Immortality of the Soul Spectator 147 V. On the Being of a God Young 150 a : 4 BOOK BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . CHAP . Page ...
Page xvii
... anger or rage , and to pour forth lamentations and forrows , not only with different tones , but with different elevations of voice . Men , at different ages of life , and in different fituations , fpeak in very different keys . The ...
... anger or rage , and to pour forth lamentations and forrows , not only with different tones , but with different elevations of voice . Men , at different ages of life , and in different fituations , fpeak in very different keys . The ...
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... Anger . A custom more honour'd in the Breach , than the Obfervance . IN fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble : these must be expreffed in reading , by a corre- fponding combination of emphases . The following ...
... Anger . A custom more honour'd in the Breach , than the Obfervance . IN fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble : these must be expreffed in reading , by a corre- fponding combination of emphases . The following ...
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... anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other paffion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known figns . The eyes and countenance ...
... anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other paffion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known figns . The eyes and countenance ...
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... anger , and it is his glory to pass over a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real ufe of riches , except in the diftribution ; the reft is all conceit . B A WISE A WISE man will defire no ...
... anger , and it is his glory to pass over a tranfgreffion . MONEY , like manure , does no good till it is fpread . There is no real ufe of riches , except in the diftribution ; the reft is all conceit . B A WISE A WISE man will defire no ...
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