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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Page 11
1 EFERENCE is the most complicate , the most indirect , and the most elegant of
all compliments . He that lies in bed all a summer's morning , loses the chief
pleasure of the day : he that gives up his youth to indolence , undergoes a loss of
the ...
1 EFERENCE is the most complicate , the most indirect , and the most elegant of
all compliments . He that lies in bed all a summer's morning , loses the chief
pleasure of the day : he that gives up his youth to indolence , undergoes a loss of
the ...
Page 29
You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; nor
saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your
votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are
...
You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; nor
saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your
votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are
...
Page 98
Like Diomed , after Minerva had endued him with the power of discerning gods
from mortals , the man of good sense discovers at once the truth of those objects
he is most concerned to distinguish ; and conducts himself with suitable caution ...
Like Diomed , after Minerva had endued him with the power of discerning gods
from mortals , the man of good sense discovers at once the truth of those objects
he is most concerned to distinguish ; and conducts himself with suitable caution ...
Page 183
Sir , it is a fore which has been long eating into the most vital part of our
conftitution , and I hope the time will come when you will probe it to the bottom . -
For if a minister should ever gain a corrupt familiarity with our boroughs ,. if he
liould keep ...
Sir , it is a fore which has been long eating into the most vital part of our
conftitution , and I hope the time will come when you will probe it to the bottom . -
For if a minister should ever gain a corrupt familiarity with our boroughs ,. if he
liould keep ...
Page 388
O pardon me , my Liege ! but for my tears ( The most impediments unto my
speech ) I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke , Ere you with grief had
spoke , and I had heard The course of it so far . There is your crown ; And he that
wears the ...
O pardon me , my Liege ! but for my tears ( The most impediments unto my
speech ) I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke , Ere you with grief had
spoke , and I had heard The course of it so far . There is your crown ; And he that
wears the ...
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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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