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 are Prefixed Two Essays |
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... Nature , and is every where intelligible . It consists in the use of tones , looks , and gestures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other passion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we ...
... Nature , and is every where intelligible . It consists in the use of tones , looks , and gestures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other passion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we ...
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... natural good sense and a liberal education have qualified to form a judgment upon the subject , will ac- knowledge ... nature of the thing . For , what is reading , but a method of conferring with men who in every age have been most ...
... natural good sense and a liberal education have qualified to form a judgment upon the subject , will ac- knowledge ... nature of the thing . For , what is reading , but a method of conferring with men who in every age have been most ...
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... nature , more or less accurate , according to the powers which the writer possesses of expressing in language the conceptions of his own imagination . This re- presentation cannot , indeed , be called an imitation of nature , in the ...
... nature , more or less accurate , according to the powers which the writer possesses of expressing in language the conceptions of his own imagination . This re- presentation cannot , indeed , be called an imitation of nature , in the ...
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... nature , and on ac- count of the peculiar interest , which nien naturally take in whatever concerns their own species . These are rich and spacious fields , from which genius may collect materials for it's various productions , without ...
... nature , and on ac- count of the peculiar interest , which nien naturally take in whatever concerns their own species . These are rich and spacious fields , from which genius may collect materials for it's various productions , without ...
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... and sentiment , such writings as these provide a kind of entertain- ment , which is in it's nature elegant and refined , and which admits of endless diversity . By exhibiting images indus- triously XXX ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
... and sentiment , such writings as these provide a kind of entertain- ment , which is in it's nature elegant and refined , and which admits of endless diversity . By exhibiting images indus- triously XXX ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
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