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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... give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear , as the ...
... give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear , as the ...
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... gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is between honour and honesty , feems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty ...
... gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy perfon in their favour . THE difference there is between honour and honesty , feems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty ...
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... , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us , as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 14 ( Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
... , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us , as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 14 ( Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
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... ? Sire , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majesty a question or two . Who were the perfons that lodged in this houfe houfe when it was firft built ? The king replied NARRATIVE PIECES I-18 The Dervife Spectator,
... ? Sire , fays the Dervife , give me leave to ask your majesty a question or two . Who were the perfons that lodged in this houfe houfe when it was firft built ? The king replied NARRATIVE PIECES I-18 The Dervife Spectator,
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... give me an account of it . The vifier approached the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul- tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but e but dare not tell you what ...
... give me an account of it . The vifier approached the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul- tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but e but dare not tell you what ...
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