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. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... matter and motion . I am positive 1 have a soul : nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me of the contrary . When Maria had come a little to herself , I asked her if she remembered a pale ...
... matter and motion . I am positive 1 have a soul : nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me of the contrary . When Maria had come a little to herself , I asked her if she remembered a pale ...
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... matter , Of the Cameleon's form and nature , " A stranger animal , cries one , " Sure never liv'd beneath the sun : " A lizard's body , lean and long , “ A fish's head , a serpent's tongue , " Its tooth with triple claw disjoin'd ...
... matter , Of the Cameleon's form and nature , " A stranger animal , cries one , " Sure never liv'd beneath the sun : " A lizard's body , lean and long , “ A fish's head , a serpent's tongue , " Its tooth with triple claw disjoin'd ...
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... matter ( as far as respects the affairs of this world ) if he spent his reputation all at once , and ventured it at one throw . But if he be to continue in the world , and would have the advantage of reputation whilst he is in it , let ...
... matter ( as far as respects the affairs of this world ) if he spent his reputation all at once , and ventured it at one throw . But if he be to continue in the world , and would have the advantage of reputation whilst he is in it , let ...
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... , it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed , to make a fire to offer it up with . STERNE : ➡➡00000➡e CHAP . XI . HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYERS 76 BOOK 111 . DIDACTIC PIECES.
... , it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed , to make a fire to offer it up with . STERNE : ➡➡00000➡e CHAP . XI . HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PLAYERS 76 BOOK 111 . DIDACTIC PIECES.
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... matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being which from God began , Nature's ethereal , human , angel , man ; Beast , bird , fish ...
... matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being which from God began , Nature's ethereal , human , angel , man ; Beast , bird , fish ...
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