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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... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points ufed in printing ; for thefe are far from marking all the pauses which ought to ...
... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points ufed in printing ; for thefe are far from marking all the pauses which ought to ...
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... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. words require by taking off his eye from the book , it in part relieves him from the influence of the school - boy habit of reading in a different key and tone from that of converfation ...
... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. words require by taking off his eye from the book , it in part relieves him from the influence of the school - boy habit of reading in a different key and tone from that of converfation ...
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... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. justly afferted to be not lefs important . It is the defign of this Effay , briefly to represent the BENEFITS which are to be expected from this kind of reading ; and to fuggeft certain ...
... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. justly afferted to be not lefs important . It is the defign of this Effay , briefly to represent the BENEFITS which are to be expected from this kind of reading ; and to fuggeft certain ...
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... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. appears in the majeftic fimplicity of Homer , or in the finished elegance of Virgil , prefents before the delighted imagination an endless variety of grand and beautiful objects ...
... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. appears in the majeftic fimplicity of Homer , or in the finished elegance of Virgil , prefents before the delighted imagination an endless variety of grand and beautiful objects ...
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... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. which these marks of genius appear in any literary pro- duction , that it can be pronounced excellent . PERFECTLY Consistent with that variety , which cha- racterizes genius , is another ...
... Youth in Reading and Speaking William Enfield. which these marks of genius appear in any literary pro- duction , that it can be pronounced excellent . PERFECTLY Consistent with that variety , which cha- racterizes genius , is another ...
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