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 39
... person of a man who had fat down betwixt her and her goat about two years before ? She faid , fhe was unfettled much at that time , but remembered it upon two accounts - that , ill as fhe was , the faw the perfon pitied her ; and next ...
... person of a man who had fat down betwixt her and her goat about two years before ? She faid , fhe was unfettled much at that time , but remembered it upon two accounts - that , ill as fhe was , the faw the perfon pitied her ; and next ...
Page 64
... person to be both impudent and bashful . WE have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education ; who though they are not able to meet a man's eyes , or pro- nounce a sentence without ...
... person to be both impudent and bashful . WE have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education ; who though they are not able to meet a man's eyes , or pro- nounce a sentence without ...
Page 85
... person injured , with all the rights of fuch a fituation belonging to him ; and when thou vieweft him in that light too , and reckoneft upon his friends , his family , his kindred and allies , and muftereft up with them the many ...
... person injured , with all the rights of fuch a fituation belonging to him ; and when thou vieweft him in that light too , and reckoneft upon his friends , his family , his kindred and allies , and muftereft up with them the many ...
Page 142
... person of illuftrious birth , of an- cient family , of innumerable ftatues , but - of no experience ? What fervice would his long line of dead ancestors , or his multitude of motionless statues , do his country in the day of battle ...
... person of illuftrious birth , of an- cient family , of innumerable ftatues , but - of no experience ? What fervice would his long line of dead ancestors , or his multitude of motionless statues , do his country in the day of battle ...
Page 144
... person . He has no statues , they cry , of his family . He can trace no venerable line of ancestors . What then ! Is it matter of more praise to dif grace one's illuftrious ancestors , than to become illuftrious by his own good ...
... person . He has no statues , they cry , of his family . He can trace no venerable line of ancestors . What then ! Is it matter of more praise to dif grace one's illuftrious ancestors , than to become illuftrious by his own good ...
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