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I have only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just
elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is some difficulty in carrying
the art of speaking out of the school , or chamber , to the bar , the senate , or the ...
I have only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just
elocution , and this with the greatest success , there is some difficulty in carrying
the art of speaking out of the school , or chamber , to the bar , the senate , or the ...
Page 106
Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as
abfurd , ' to mourn the tasks or pains , The great directing Mind of Al'l ordains . All
are but parts of one ftupendous whole , Whofe body Nature is , and God the soul
...
Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another , in this gen'ral frame : Just as
abfurd , ' to mourn the tasks or pains , The great directing Mind of Al'l ordains . All
are but parts of one ftupendous whole , Whofe body Nature is , and God the soul
...
Page 205
He had the comfort to be conscious , that his cause was a just one . It was
impossible the other should have any such feeling . I believe , said I , you have
explained it . SUPPOSE then , continued he , ( it is but merely an hypothesis )
fuppose , I ...
He had the comfort to be conscious , that his cause was a just one . It was
impossible the other should have any such feeling . I believe , said I , you have
explained it . SUPPOSE then , continued he , ( it is but merely an hypothesis )
fuppose , I ...
Page 231
SHAKSPEARE с н А Р. XI . HENRY AND LORD CHIEF JUSTICE . UST . I CH .
JUST AM affur'd , if I be measur'd rightly , Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate
me . P. Henry . No ! might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities ...
SHAKSPEARE с н А Р. XI . HENRY AND LORD CHIEF JUSTICE . UST . I CH .
JUST AM affur'd , if I be measur'd rightly , Your Majesty hath no just cause to hate
me . P. Henry . No ! might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities ...
Page 343
... for our comfort , said my uncle Toby , that God Almighty is so good and just a
governor of the world , that if we have but done our duties in it , it will never be
enquired into , whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one : - I hope
not ...
... for our comfort , said my uncle Toby , that God Almighty is so good and just a
governor of the world , that if we have but done our duties in it , it will never be
enquired into , whether we have done them in a red coat or a black one : - I hope
not ...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1797 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2012 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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