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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... looks , and geftures . THERE is unquestionably a language of emotions and paffions , as well as a language of ideas . Words are the arbitrary figns by which our conceptions and judgments are communicated ; and for this end they are ...
... looks , and geftures . THERE is unquestionably a language of emotions and paffions , as well as a language of ideas . Words are the arbitrary figns by which our conceptions and judgments are communicated ; and for this end they are ...
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... looks and geftures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other paffion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known figns ...
... looks and geftures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other paffion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known figns ...
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... looks and gesture . IT were much to be wifhed , that all public fpeakers would deliver their thoughts and fentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : for , befides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always ...
... looks and gesture . IT were much to be wifhed , that all public fpeakers would deliver their thoughts and fentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : for , befides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always ...
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... look , what he faith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
... look , what he faith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
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... looks ,, Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an ...
... looks ,, Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . WHO fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none prefume To wear an ...
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