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 xxix
... should that name be founded more than yours ? and that , where two queftions are united in one fentence , and connected by the conjunction or , the first takes the fufpending , the fecond , the clofing paufe ; as , Would you have been ...
... should that name be founded more than yours ? and that , where two queftions are united in one fentence , and connected by the conjunction or , the first takes the fufpending , the fecond , the clofing paufe ; as , Would you have been ...
Page xxxiii
... should pay a par- ticular attention to his prevailing defects , whether they regard articulation , command of voice , emphafis , or ca- dence : and he fhould content himfelf with reading and fpeaking with an immediate view to the ...
... should pay a par- ticular attention to his prevailing defects , whether they regard articulation , command of voice , emphafis , or ca- dence : and he fhould content himfelf with reading and fpeaking with an immediate view to the ...
Page xxxvii
... should exprefs the facts , or truths , which they are intended to teach , with perfect perfpicuity of conception , arrangement and dic- tion . But in works of tafte , the writing itself becomes a principal object of attention , as a ...
... should exprefs the facts , or truths , which they are intended to teach , with perfect perfpicuity of conception , arrangement and dic- tion . But in works of tafte , the writing itself becomes a principal object of attention , as a ...
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... should unite to produce one regular whole . Denique fit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the subject , it may ...
... should unite to produce one regular whole . Denique fit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a fentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arifing from the subject , it may ...
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... should confine himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be easy to fhow , by examples , that this fashionable method of re- ducing fentences to one standard , whatever it may add to the neatness and ...
... should confine himself to the expreffion of a fingle thought in each fentence . It would be easy to fhow , by examples , that this fashionable method of re- ducing fentences to one standard , whatever it may add to the neatness and ...
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affurance againſt Balaam becauſe beſt bofom breaft buſineſs cauſe CHAP cloſe confequence confidered converfation Dæmons defire diſtinguiſhed elocution emphafis exerciſe expreffion exprefs fafe faid fame feem fenfe fentence fentiment ferve fhall fhew fhould firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon foul fpeaking fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuperior fure genius happineſs heart heaven herſelf himſelf honour houſe intereft itſelf juft juſt laft laſt leaſt lefs meaſures mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never o'er obferving occafion ourſelves paffion pafs pain paufe perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffible prefent purpoſe racters raiſe reading reafon refpect reft ſaid Scythians ſhall ſhe ſpeak ſpeaker ſtate ſtill ſuch tafte taſte Theana thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro underſtand uſe virtue voice whofe whoſe wife wiſdom words writing yourſelf