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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... IV . PRONOUNCE your words with PROPRIETY and ELEGANCE . Tis not eafy to fix upon any standard , by which the propriety of pronuciation is to be determined . Mere Mere men of learning , in attempting to make the XX AN ESSAY ON.
... IV . PRONOUNCE your words with PROPRIETY and ELEGANCE . Tis not eafy to fix upon any standard , by which the propriety of pronuciation is to be determined . Mere Mere men of learning , in attempting to make the XX AN ESSAY ON.
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... learning ; for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . Ir is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight ...
... learning ; for he has thereby more ways of exposing himself . Ir is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight ...
Pagina 5
... learning , as to ears of corn ; they fhoot up , and raife their head's high , while they are empty ; but when full , and fwelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . He that is truly polite , knows how to contradict with re ...
... learning , as to ears of corn ; they fhoot up , and raife their head's high , while they are empty ; but when full , and fwelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . He that is truly polite , knows how to contradict with re ...
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... learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble descent would then in- deed be a very valuable privilege . TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and ...
... learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his lands , a noble descent would then in- deed be a very valuable privilege . TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and ...
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... learning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armour , that one has nothing left to defend . DEFERENCE often fhrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy , as the fenfitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger . MEN ...
... learning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armour , that one has nothing left to defend . DEFERENCE often fhrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy , as the fenfitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger . MEN ...
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