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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Page xii
... true in the art of speaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To difcover and correct those tones , and habits of speaking , which are ...
... true in the art of speaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To difcover and correct those tones , and habits of speaking , which are ...
Page xxv
... true oratory . Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with juft fpeaking , may deferve attention . But to fubftitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties ...
... true oratory . Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with juft fpeaking , may deferve attention . But to fubftitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties ...
Page xxviii
... true , whatfoever things are honeft , whatsoever things are juft , whatsoever things are pure , whatsoever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue , and if there be any praife , think on thefe ...
... true , whatfoever things are honeft , whatsoever things are juft , whatsoever things are pure , whatsoever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue , and if there be any praife , think on thefe ...
Page xxxv
... true gentleman has acquired by having learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always exhibiting his formal dancing- bow , and minuet - step . So , we admire the manly elo- quence and noble ardour of the Senator ...
... true gentleman has acquired by having learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always exhibiting his formal dancing- bow , and minuet - step . So , we admire the manly elo- quence and noble ardour of the Senator ...
Page xlii
... true tafte for polite literature , which diftinguishes him from the vulgar , at least as much as the man who enjoys an affluent fortune is diftinguished by the luxuries of his table . BESIDES the immediate gratification which this kind ...
... true tafte for polite literature , which diftinguishes him from the vulgar , at least as much as the man who enjoys an affluent fortune is diftinguished by the luxuries of his table . BESIDES the immediate gratification which this kind ...
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