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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... most useful branches of Science and Literature , you have seen many refpectable characters formed , who are now filling up their stations in fociety with reputation to themselves , and advantage to the Public . a 2 And . And , while the ...
... most useful branches of Science and Literature , you have seen many refpectable characters formed , who are now filling up their stations in fociety with reputation to themselves , and advantage to the Public . a 2 And . And , while the ...
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... most common faults refpecting Emphafis are , laying fo ftrong an emphafis upon one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the ...
... most common faults refpecting Emphafis are , laying fo ftrong an emphafis upon one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the ...
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... most useful attainments in the art of speaking : it enables the fpeaker to pause as long as he chufes , and ftill keep the hearer in expectation of what is to follow * . In order to perceive the manner in which this effect is produced ...
... most useful attainments in the art of speaking : it enables the fpeaker to pause as long as he chufes , and ftill keep the hearer in expectation of what is to follow * . In order to perceive the manner in which this effect is produced ...
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... most fri- volous part of mankind . Every one , whom natural good - fense and a liberal education have qualified to form a judgment upon the fubject , will acknowledge , that it is capable of being applied to an endless variety of use ...
... most fri- volous part of mankind . Every one , whom natural good - fense and a liberal education have qualified to form a judgment upon the fubject , will acknowledge , that it is capable of being applied to an endless variety of use ...
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... most ad- vantageous manner . THE agreeable EMPLOYMENT which reading works of taste affords the active faculties of the mind , is its firft and moft obvious effect . THE productions of genius , whether written in the narrative ...
... most ad- vantageous manner . THE agreeable EMPLOYMENT which reading works of taste affords the active faculties of the mind , is its firft and moft obvious effect . THE productions of genius , whether written in the narrative ...
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