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 86
... house shall totter - thy character , which led the way to them , fhall bleed on every fide of it - thy faith questioned - thy works belied - thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on : To wind up the laft fcene of the tragedy ...
... house shall totter - thy character , which led the way to them , fhall bleed on every fide of it - thy faith questioned - thy works belied - thy wit forgotten - thy learning trampled on : To wind up the laft fcene of the tragedy ...
Page 159
... house , he must do it ; he dares not difobey ; immediate death would be the fure confequence of the least grumbling . And if an officer were fent into the court of requests , accompanied by a body of musketeers with fcrewed bayonets ...
... house , he must do it ; he dares not difobey ; immediate death would be the fure confequence of the least grumbling . And if an officer were fent into the court of requests , accompanied by a body of musketeers with fcrewed bayonets ...
Page 160
... house , nor any fucceffion , can ever be safe as long as there is a standing army in the country . Armies , Sir ,. have no regard to hereditary fucceffions . The first two Cafars at Rome did pretty well , and found means to keep their ...
... house , nor any fucceffion , can ever be safe as long as there is a standing army in the country . Armies , Sir ,. have no regard to hereditary fucceffions . The first two Cafars at Rome did pretty well , and found means to keep their ...
Page 167
... house , to more out of it ( and who are fo for this very rea- fon ) for the truth of my affertion . Sir , it is a fore which has been long eating into the most vital part of our confti- tution , and I hope the time will come when you ...
... house , to more out of it ( and who are fo for this very rea- fon ) for the truth of my affertion . Sir , it is a fore which has been long eating into the most vital part of our confti- tution , and I hope the time will come when you ...
Page 168
... house , than by feconding the motion which the honourable gentleman has made you . CHAP . X. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S REPLY . MR . CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER , THOUGH the queftion has been already fo fully op- pofed , that there is no ...
... house , than by feconding the motion which the honourable gentleman has made you . CHAP . X. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE'S REPLY . MR . CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER , THOUGH the queftion has been already fo fully op- pofed , that there is no ...
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