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he is To epithets allots emphatic state , Whilst principals , ungrac'd , like lacquies
wait ; In ways first trodden by himself excels , And stands alone in indeclinables ;
Conjunction , preposition , adverb , join To stamp new vigour on the nervous ...
he is To epithets allots emphatic state , Whilst principals , ungrac'd , like lacquies
wait ; In ways first trodden by himself excels , And stands alone in indeclinables ;
Conjunction , preposition , adverb , join To stamp new vigour on the nervous ...
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In the choice of these , the practitioner should pay a particular attention to his
prevailing defecis , whether they regard articulation , command of voice ,
emphasis , or ca : dence : and he should content himself with reading and
speaking with an ...
In the choice of these , the practitioner should pay a particular attention to his
prevailing defecis , whether they regard articulation , command of voice ,
emphasis , or ca : dence : and he should content himself with reading and
speaking with an ...
Page xxxiv
A young man , who has been accustomed to performa frequent exercises in this
art in private , cannot easily persuade himself , when he appears before the
public , to consider the business he - * See Dea : Swift's advice on this head , in
his ...
A young man , who has been accustomed to performa frequent exercises in this
art in private , cannot easily persuade himself , when he appears before the
public , to consider the business he - * See Dea : Swift's advice on this head , in
his ...
Page xxxv
... and unaffected energy of the Sacred Instructor : but when in any one of these
capacities , a man fo far forgets the ends and degrades the consequence of his
profession , as to set himself forth under the character of a Spouter , and to
parade ...
... and unaffected energy of the Sacred Instructor : but when in any one of these
capacities , a man fo far forgets the ends and degrades the consequence of his
profession , as to set himself forth under the character of a Spouter , and to
parade ...
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He who does not himself clearly understand his own meaning , can have no right
to expect that his reader will understand it . Those writers are most liable to this
fault , whose ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of ...
He who does not himself clearly understand his own meaning , can have no right
to expect that his reader will understand it . Those writers are most liable to this
fault , whose ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of ...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1792 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 13 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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