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... reader with many new and judicious selections both in prose and poetry ; and altogether evinces great industry ... Reading in this city , no event of the kind has so highly gratified me , as the opportunity you have afforded me of ...
... reader with many new and judicious selections both in prose and poetry ; and altogether evinces great industry ... Reading in this city , no event of the kind has so highly gratified me , as the opportunity you have afforded me of ...
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... reader wades through a long preface with as much reluctance , as he would pass through the ordeal of a ceremonious introduction to a large assem- blage of guests , when invited to dine with a stranger . This repugnance to preface - reading ...
... reader wades through a long preface with as much reluctance , as he would pass through the ordeal of a ceremonious introduction to a large assem- blage of guests , when invited to dine with a stranger . This repugnance to preface - reading ...
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... reading , an author is often compelled to live on short allowance , and trudge on foot , whilst his more fortunate ... readers . " The cumbrous labours of such men prove unavailing , from an apparently trifling difference of opinion ...
... reading , an author is often compelled to live on short allowance , and trudge on foot , whilst his more fortunate ... readers . " The cumbrous labours of such men prove unavailing , from an apparently trifling difference of opinion ...
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... readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness , Hence , such books are worse than no books . What , then , is to be done , in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been rapidly increasing ever ...
... readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness , Hence , such books are worse than no books . What , then , is to be done , in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been rapidly increasing ever ...
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... reader , lest , by this time , you may think me inclined to be garrulous , if not flighty , upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me , I will now put a bridle upon my wayward thoughts , and lead them directly into the channel ...
... reader , lest , by this time , you may think me inclined to be garrulous , if not flighty , upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me , I will now put a bridle upon my wayward thoughts , and lead them directly into the channel ...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners No preview available - 2020 |
An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners Samuel Kirkham No preview available - 2021 |
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