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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... 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 ; and gives him greater liberty to attempt the expreffion of the countenance and ...
... 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 ; and gives him greater liberty to attempt the expreffion of the countenance and ...
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... eye , to take in feveral clauses , or the whole of a sentence * . I HAVE only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a juft elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is fome diffi- culty in carrying ...
... eye , to take in feveral clauses , or the whole of a sentence * . I HAVE only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a juft elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is fome diffi- culty in carrying ...
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... eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear , as the voice of one that owns you for his bene- factor . THE Coin that is most current among mankind is flattery ; the only benefit of which ...
... eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear , as the voice of one that owns you for his bene- factor . THE Coin that is most current among mankind is flattery ; the only benefit of which ...
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... eye of infinite wifdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness here- after , large as our defires , and lasting as our immortal fouls ; without this the higheft ftate of life is infipid ...
... eye of infinite wifdom , power , and goodness , that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness here- after , large as our defires , and lasting as our immortal fouls ; without this the higheft ftate of life is infipid ...
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... eyes caft towards the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modefty , and her raiment as white as fnow . The other had a great deal of health and floridnefs in her countenance , which he had helped with an ...
... eyes caft towards the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modefty , and her raiment as white as fnow . The other had a great deal of health and floridnefs in her countenance , which he had helped with an ...
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