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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... once set a - going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confused and . obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost ...
... once set a - going , clatters on till the weight that moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confused and . obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost ...
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... once you profess yourself a friend , endea- vour to be always such . He can never have any true fends that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men ...
... once you profess yourself a friend , endea- vour to be always such . He can never have any true fends that will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of men ...
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... once a rake and to glory in the character , discovers at the same time a bad disposition and a bad taste . How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice , when they will not so much as take warning ? Although men are ...
... once a rake and to glory in the character , discovers at the same time a bad disposition and a bad taste . How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice , when they will not so much as take warning ? Although men are ...
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... once the harmony .. Men's zeal for religion is much of the same kind as that which they show for a foot - ball ; whenever it is contested for , every one is ready , to venture their lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once ...
... once the harmony .. Men's zeal for religion is much of the same kind as that which they show for a foot - ball ; whenever it is contested for , every one is ready , to venture their lives and limbs in the dispute ; but when that is once ...
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... once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to be more strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come , There is some soul of goodness in things evil , Would men ...
... once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to be more strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come , There is some soul of goodness in things evil , Would men ...
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Acmit army Avarice Balaam behold bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar CELADON CHAP cheerfulness Dæmon danger daugh daughter death divine doth earth endeavour eternal Ev'n ev'ry fate father fear fool fortune FRAM Gauls give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart heav'n honour hope hour humour IAGO king labour learning live look Lord MACD mankind Maria marriage means mind modesty motley fool Muse nature Nature's never noble nymph o'er once pain passion Patricians peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise pride Romans sapadillas Scythians sense shade SHAKSPEARE SIR JOHN smiles SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit STERL suavitèr sweet Syphax tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought Tis green truth twas uncle Toby virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth