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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... mean time the fons of men deviated from their native innocence ; Vice and Ruin overran the earth with giant ftrides : and Aftrea , with her her train of celeftial vifitants , forfook their polluted abodes 30 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES ...
... mean time the fons of men deviated from their native innocence ; Vice and Ruin overran the earth with giant ftrides : and Aftrea , with her her train of celeftial vifitants , forfook their polluted abodes 30 ( Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES ...
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... means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart , That I would all my pilgrimage dilate ; Whereof by parcels fhe had fomething heard , But not diftinctively . I did confent , And often did beguile her of her tears , When I did speak of ...
... means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart , That I would all my pilgrimage dilate ; Whereof by parcels fhe had fomething heard , But not diftinctively . I did confent , And often did beguile her of her tears , When I did speak of ...
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... mean between bashfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with observing , that as the fame man may be both modeft and assured ; fo it is also poffible for the fame person to be both impudent and bashful . WE have frequent inftances of ...
... mean between bashfulness and impudence . I SHALL conclude with observing , that as the fame man may be both modeft and assured ; fo it is also poffible for the fame person to be both impudent and bashful . WE have frequent inftances of ...
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... means , whofe goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who defire it of him , and whofe unchangeablenefs will fecure us in this happiness to all eternity . SUCH Confiderations which every one should perpetually cherish in his ...
... means , whofe goodness and truth engage him to make those happy who defire it of him , and whofe unchangeablenefs will fecure us in this happiness to all eternity . SUCH Confiderations which every one should perpetually cherish in his ...
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... means honeftly . When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity , nothing will then serve his turn - neither truth nor falfehood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world for a day , and should never have ...
... means honeftly . When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity , nothing will then serve his turn - neither truth nor falfehood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world for a day , and should never have ...
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