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 |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 26
Page 99
... Reason , Life , and Sense , In one close system of Benevolence : Happier as kinder , in whate'er degree , And height of Blifs but height of Charity . God loves from Whole to Parts : But human foul Muft rife from Individual to the Whole ...
... Reason , Life , and Sense , In one close system of Benevolence : Happier as kinder , in whate'er degree , And height of Blifs but height of Charity . God loves from Whole to Parts : But human foul Muft rife from Individual to the Whole ...
Page 111
... Reason's eye refin'd clears up apace . Ye vainly wife ! ye blind prefumptuous ! now , Confounded , in the duft , adore that PowER , And WISDOM oft arraign'd : fee now the caufe , Why unaffuming worth in fecret liv'd , And dy'd neglected ...
... Reason's eye refin'd clears up apace . Ye vainly wife ! ye blind prefumptuous ! now , Confounded , in the duft , adore that PowER , And WISDOM oft arraign'd : fee now the caufe , Why unaffuming worth in fecret liv'd , And dy'd neglected ...
Page 125
... reason , and unfit him for difcharging the duties of life in a becoming manner . By only diminishing his paf- fion , he may leffen , but cannot remove the evil ; for the only way to get clear of the one , is by entirely difmiffing the ...
... reason , and unfit him for difcharging the duties of life in a becoming manner . By only diminishing his paf- fion , he may leffen , but cannot remove the evil ; for the only way to get clear of the one , is by entirely difmiffing the ...
Page 131
... reason , all derived from externals must fluctuate , as they fluctuate . By the fame rule , not from a mixture of the two : because the part which is external will proportionally deftroy its effence . What then remains but the cause ...
... reason , all derived from externals must fluctuate , as they fluctuate . By the fame rule , not from a mixture of the two : because the part which is external will proportionally deftroy its effence . What then remains but the cause ...
Page 137
... reason . They have left us hoftages more dear to them than life . Their wives , their children , their fathers , their mothers , are here in the city .. Courage , Romans ! the gods are for us ; thofe gods whofe temples and altars the ...
... reason . They have left us hoftages more dear to them than life . Their wives , their children , their fathers , their mothers , are here in the city .. Courage , Romans ! the gods are for us ; thofe gods whofe temples and altars the ...
Contents
79 | |
87 | |
88 | |
97 | |
107 | |
113 | |
119 | |
136 | |
145 | |
158 | |
168 | |
179 | |
210 | |
291 | |
297 | |
309 | |
324 | |
332 | |
351 | |
357 | |
366 | |
372 | |
379 | |
389 | |
395 | |
401 | |
Other editions - View all
The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ... No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beſt bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar cauſe CHAP confider dæmons defire eternal fafe faid fame father fecure feems fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fide fince firft firſt fmile fome fomething fool foon foul fpeaking ftate ftill fubject fuch fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houſe intereft itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt lefs lord meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never o'er obferve occafion ourſelves paffion pafs pain perfon pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praiſe prefent raiſe reaſon reft rife ſay Scythians ſee ſhall ſhe ſhould SIR JOHN ſmall ſpeak ſpirit ſpreads ſtand ſtate ſtep STERL ſtill ſuch Syphax tears thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom yourſelf youth