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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pagina's |
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Pagina xxx
... confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the fame ; and every judicious imitation of it will always be pleafing . Nor can any one deferve the appella- tion of a good speaker ...
... confider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the fame ; and every judicious imitation of it will always be pleafing . Nor can any one deferve the appella- tion of a good speaker ...
Pagina xxxiii
... confider the business he has to perform in any · other light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Ora- tor has of late often been treated with ridicule , fometimes with contempt ...
... confider the business he has to perform in any · other light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is , that the character of an Ora- tor has of late often been treated with ridicule , fometimes with contempt ...
Pagina 27
... confider what courfe of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a defert , where the filence and folitude of the place very much favoured his meditations . As he was mufing on his prefent condition , and very much perplexing ...
... confider what courfe of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a defert , where the filence and folitude of the place very much favoured his meditations . As he was mufing on his prefent condition , and very much perplexing ...
Pagina 65
... confider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and tranfient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest tran- fports of mirth , who are fubject to the greatest depreffions of ...
... confider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and tranfient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest tran- fports of mirth , who are fubject to the greatest depreffions of ...
Pagina 66
... confider cheerfulness in three lights , with regard to ourfelves , to thofe we converfe with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of thefe accounts . The man who is poffeffed of this ...
... confider cheerfulness in three lights , with regard to ourfelves , to thofe we converfe with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of thefe accounts . The man who is poffeffed of this ...
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