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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... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. fion , which belongs to ... head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral ...
... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. fion , which belongs to ... head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral ...
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... head which reading requires , are in- confiftent with the freedom , eafe , and variety of juft elocution . But , if this is too much to be expected , especially from Preachers , who have fo much to compose , and are so often called upon ...
... head which reading requires , are in- confiftent with the freedom , eafe , and variety of juft elocution . But , if this is too much to be expected , especially from Preachers , who have fo much to compose , and are so often called upon ...
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... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. which conftitute the merit of fine writing in general , or to delineate the peculiar features by which excel- lence is marked in , the ...
... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. which conftitute the merit of fine writing in general , or to delineate the peculiar features by which excel- lence is marked in , the ...
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... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. one perfon , or fubject , to another . But there seems to be no fufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained fome authority ...
... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. one perfon , or fubject , to another . But there seems to be no fufficient ground for a rule , which has of late gained fome authority ...
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... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. A GOOD man will love himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an eftate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt ...
... Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. A GOOD man will love himself too well to lofe , and his neighbour too well to win , an eftate by gaming . The love of gaming will corrupt ...
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