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... fpeech , I am re- folved to do it in writing , and to print myfelf out , if poffible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is a pity fo many ufeful difcoveries which I have made fhould be in the poffeffion of a ...
... fpeech , I am re- folved to do it in writing , and to print myfelf out , if poffible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is a pity fo many ufeful difcoveries which I have made fhould be in the poffeffion of a ...
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... fpeech , gives me all the advantage of a dumb man . I have , methinks , a a more than ordinary penetration in feeing ; and flatter myfelf that I have looked into the higheft and lowest of mankind , and make fhrewd gueffes , without ...
... fpeech , gives me all the advantage of a dumb man . I have , methinks , a a more than ordinary penetration in feeing ; and flatter myfelf that I have looked into the higheft and lowest of mankind , and make fhrewd gueffes , without ...
Page 86
Joseph Addison. parts , I defire , if you give him motion or fpeech , that you would advance me in my way , and let me keep on in what I humbly prefume I am a mafter ; to wit , in reprefenting human and ftill life together . I have fe ...
Joseph Addison. parts , I defire , if you give him motion or fpeech , that you would advance me in my way , and let me keep on in what I humbly prefume I am a mafter ; to wit , in reprefenting human and ftill life together . I have fe ...
Page 112
... fpeech is altogether dif- ferent from that of every other people ; as we may see even in the Welsh and Scotch , who border fo near upon us . By the tone or accent , I do not mean the pronun- ciation of each particular word , but the ...
... fpeech is altogether dif- ferent from that of every other people ; as we may see even in the Welsh and Scotch , who border fo near upon us . By the tone or accent , I do not mean the pronun- ciation of each particular word , but the ...
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... fpeech , 1 difcovered to be of that fpecies who are gene- rally diftinguished by the title of projectors . This gen- tleman , for I found he was treated as fuch by his audi- ence , was entertaining a whole table of lifteners with the ...
... fpeech , 1 difcovered to be of that fpecies who are gene- rally diftinguished by the title of projectors . This gen- tleman , for I found he was treated as fuch by his audi- ence , was entertaining a whole table of lifteners with the ...
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