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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... much obliged , and moft obedient Servant , WILLIAM ENFIELD . Warrington Academy , Stober 1 , 1774 . ADVERTISEMENT . THE favourable Reception with which the Public has iv DEDICATION . Elegy on the Death of an unfortunate Lady On Honour.
... much obliged , and moft obedient Servant , WILLIAM ENFIELD . Warrington Academy , Stober 1 , 1774 . ADVERTISEMENT . THE favourable Reception with which the Public has iv DEDICATION . Elegy on the Death of an unfortunate Lady On Honour.
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... honoured THE SPEAKER , has induced the Editor to prefix to the prefent Edition , THE ESSAY ON ELOCU- TION , corrected and enlarged ; and an ESSAY ON READ- ING WORKS OF TASTE , in which he has endeavoured to represent to young Perfons ...
... honoured THE SPEAKER , has induced the Editor to prefix to the prefent Edition , THE ESSAY ON ELOCU- TION , corrected and enlarged ; and an ESSAY ON READ- ING WORKS OF TASTE , in which he has endeavoured to represent to young Perfons ...
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... Honour Tillofon 83 Guardian 86 V. On Good Humour VI . On the Knowledge of the World Rambler 89 Ibid . 93 VII . On the Advantages of uniting Gentleness of Manners with Firmness of Mind Lord Cb ferfield 95 VIII , On Good Senfe Melmoth 98 ...
... Honour Tillofon 83 Guardian 86 V. On Good Humour VI . On the Knowledge of the World Rambler 89 Ibid . 93 VII . On the Advantages of uniting Gentleness of Manners with Firmness of Mind Lord Cb ferfield 95 VIII , On Good Senfe Melmoth 98 ...
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... honour'd in the Breach , than the Obfervance . IN fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble : these must be expreffed in reading , by a corre- fponding combination of emphases . The following inftances are of this kind ...
... honour'd in the Breach , than the Obfervance . IN fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble : these must be expreffed in reading , by a corre- fponding combination of emphases . The following inftances are of this kind ...
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... honour conferred upon fuch as have no perfonal merit , are at best but the royal ftamp fet upon base metal . THOUGH an honourable title may be conveyed to poste- rity , yet the ennobling qualities which are the foul of great- nefs , are ...
... honour conferred upon fuch as have no perfonal merit , are at best but the royal ftamp fet upon base metal . THOUGH an honourable title may be conveyed to poste- rity , yet the ennobling qualities which are the foul of great- nefs , are ...
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