The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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... hear pronounced by them gives infi- nitely more pleasure than when we only read it . I think I may affirm , that a very indifferent speech , well delivered , will have a greater effect than the best , if destitute of that advantage ...
... hear pronounced by them gives infi- nitely more pleasure than when we only read it . I think I may affirm , that a very indifferent speech , well delivered , will have a greater effect than the best , if destitute of that advantage ...
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... hear them coming , count them as they passed , and lose them in the hollow distance , he would lie and watch the many - coloured ring about the candle , and wait patiently for day . His only trouble was , the swift and rapid river . He ...
... hear them coming , count them as they passed , and lose them in the hollow distance , he would lie and watch the many - coloured ring about the candle , and wait patiently for day . His only trouble was , the swift and rapid river . He ...
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... hear the voices , but not the words , of his terror - stricken companions below . What a moment ! what a meagre ... hears the hum of new and numerous voices both above and below . He can just distinguish the tones of his father , who is ...
... hear the voices , but not the words , of his terror - stricken companions below . What a moment ! what a meagre ... hears the hum of new and numerous voices both above and below . He can just distinguish the tones of his father , who is ...
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... hear them spoken . Joseph Paice , of Bread Street Hill , merchant , and one of the Directors of the South Sea Company - the same to whom Edwards , the Shakspeare commentator , has addressed a fine sonnet - was the only pattern of ...
... hear them spoken . Joseph Paice , of Bread Street Hill , merchant , and one of the Directors of the South Sea Company - the same to whom Edwards , the Shakspeare commentator , has addressed a fine sonnet - was the only pattern of ...
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... hear what they should tell him . Then , endeavouring by every little artifice to pre- pare his mind for what must come , and dwelling with many fervent words upon the happy lot to which she had been removed , they told him , at last ...
... hear what they should tell him . Then , endeavouring by every little artifice to pre- pare his mind for what must come , and dwelling with many fervent words upon the happy lot to which she had been removed , they told him , at last ...
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