The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 pagina's |
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Pagina 23
... thoughts and fentiments either from memory or immediate conception ; for , befides that there is an artificial uniformity , which almost always diflin- guishes reading from speaking , the fixed pofture , and the bending of the head ...
... thoughts and fentiments either from memory or immediate conception ; for , befides that there is an artificial uniformity , which almost always diflin- guishes reading from speaking , the fixed pofture , and the bending of the head ...
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... thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing C 2 CHAP . 3 . 27 SELECT ...
... thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing C 2 CHAP . 3 . 27 SELECT ...
Pagina 33
... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occasions one to talk the lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philofophy , is to spend fo much in armour ...
... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occasions one to talk the lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philofophy , is to spend fo much in armour ...
Pagina 35
... thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rub- bish which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean but a necessary substitute for it , in focieties ...
... thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rub- bish which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean but a necessary substitute for it , in focieties ...
Pagina 48
... thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beaft , than he you . Any thing to please , fays the owner , and alighting with his fon , they tied the legs of ...
... thought fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beaft , than he you . Any thing to please , fays the owner , and alighting with his fon , they tied the legs of ...
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