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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... feems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falsehood appear like truth , A LIAR 10 ( Book D. SELECT SENTENCES . Corporal ...
... feems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the fake of character . A LIAR begins with making falsehood appear like truth , A LIAR 10 ( Book D. SELECT SENTENCES . Corporal ...
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... feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in a word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
... feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in a word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
Pagina 64
... feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in spite of himself , and in defiance of all thofe checks and restraints his temper and complexion seem to have laid in his way . UPON the whole , I would endeavour to establish this maxim ...
... feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in spite of himself , and in defiance of all thofe checks and restraints his temper and complexion seem to have laid in his way . UPON the whole , I would endeavour to establish this maxim ...
Pagina 80
... feems to have no opinion of his own , and fervilely adopts the prefent opinion of the prefent perfon ; he infinuates him- felf felf only into the esteem of fools , but is DIDACTIC PIECES . ( Book III . On the Advantages of uniting ...
... feems to have no opinion of his own , and fervilely adopts the prefent opinion of the prefent perfon ; he infinuates him- felf felf only into the esteem of fools , but is DIDACTIC PIECES . ( Book III . On the Advantages of uniting ...
Pagina 84
... feems to lie in the commerce of the world . Accordingly we may observe , that those who have converfed more with men than with books ; whose wisdom is derived rather from experience than contemplation ; generally poffefs this happy ...
... feems to lie in the commerce of the world . Accordingly we may observe , that those who have converfed more with men than with books ; whose wisdom is derived rather from experience than contemplation ; generally poffefs this happy ...
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