Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions and Emotions of the Mind |
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... virtue , 109 111 112 113 Price 116 7 Address to art , Harris 117 8 Flattery , Theophrastus 119 9 The absent man , Spectator 119 10 The monk , Sterne 121 11 On the head dress of the ladies , Spectator 123 12 On the present and future ...
... virtue , 109 111 112 113 Price 116 7 Address to art , Harris 117 8 Flattery , Theophrastus 119 9 The absent man , Spectator 119 10 The monk , Sterne 121 11 On the head dress of the ladies , Spectator 123 12 On the present and future ...
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... Virtue , man's highest interest , Harris 145 9 On the pleasure arising from objects of sight , 10 Liberty and slavery , 11 The cant of criticism , 12 Parallel between Pope and Dryden , 13 The story of Le Fevre , Spectator 146 Sterne 149 ...
... Virtue , man's highest interest , Harris 145 9 On the pleasure arising from objects of sight , 10 Liberty and slavery , 11 The cant of criticism , 12 Parallel between Pope and Dryden , 13 The story of Le Fevre , Spectator 146 Sterne 149 ...
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... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludicrous appearance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the law- yer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unusefully , in his plead- ings , as well as any other stroke of ornament ...
... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludicrous appearance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the law- yer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unusefully , in his plead- ings , as well as any other stroke of ornament ...
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... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
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... virtue , or their vice , to education , as much as to nature . There is no such fop as my young master of his lady - mother's making . She blows him up with self conceit , and there he stops .. She makes a man of him at twelve , and a ...
... virtue , or their vice , to education , as much as to nature . There is no such fop as my young master of his lady - mother's making . She blows him up with self conceit , and there he stops .. She makes a man of him at twelve , and a ...
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