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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page 149
... ARMY , TO INCITE AGAINST THE ROMANS . THEM TO ACTION WHEN I reflect on the caufes of the war , and the cir cumstances of our fituation , I feel a strong perfuafion that our united efforts on the prefent day will prove the begin- ning of ...
... ARMY , TO INCITE AGAINST THE ROMANS . THEM TO ACTION WHEN I reflect on the caufes of the war , and the cir cumstances of our fituation , I feel a strong perfuafion that our united efforts on the prefent day will prove the begin- ning of ...
Page 151
... army ; an army compounded of the most different nations , which as fuccefs alone has kept together , misfortuue will certainly diffipate . Unless , indeed , you can fuppofe that Gauls , and Germans , and ( I blush to say it ) even ...
... army ; an army compounded of the most different nations , which as fuccefs alone has kept together , misfortuue will certainly diffipate . Unless , indeed , you can fuppofe that Gauls , and Germans , and ( I blush to say it ) even ...
Page 152
... army . There , tributes , mines , and all the train of fervile punishments ; which whether to bear eternally , or in- flantly to revenge , this field must determine . March then to battle , and think of your ancestors and your pofterity ...
... army . There , tributes , mines , and all the train of fervile punishments ; which whether to bear eternally , or in- flantly to revenge , this field must determine . March then to battle , and think of your ancestors and your pofterity ...
Page 154
... army of foreigners , Angevins , Gafcons , Poitevins , I know not who , are come over with Henry Plantagenet , the fon of Matilda and many more , no doubt , will be called to- affift him , as foon as ever his affairs abroad will permit ...
... army of foreigners , Angevins , Gafcons , Poitevins , I know not who , are come over with Henry Plantagenet , the fon of Matilda and many more , no doubt , will be called to- affift him , as foon as ever his affairs abroad will permit ...
Page 158
... ARMY . SIR , WE have heard a great deal about parliamentary ar- mies , and about an army continued from year to year ; I have always been , Sir , and always fhall be , against a stand- ing army of any kind : to me it is a terrible thing ...
... ARMY . SIR , WE have heard a great deal about parliamentary ar- mies , and about an army continued from year to year ; I have always been , Sir , and always fhall be , against a stand- ing army of any kind : to me it is a terrible thing ...
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