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 páginas |
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... present , but are providing to live another time . • Party is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor .. Superftition ...
... present , but are providing to live another time . • Party is the madness of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor .. Superftition ...
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... present , to see how they liked her , and often looked on the figure she made in her own fhadow . Upon her nearer approach to Hercules , the ftepped before the other lady , who came forward with a regular compofed carriage , and running ...
... present , to see how they liked her , and often looked on the figure she made in her own fhadow . Upon her nearer approach to Hercules , the ftepped before the other lady , who came forward with a regular compofed carriage , and running ...
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... present shame , A thousand griefs shall waken at the name ; May I lie cold before that dreadful day , Preft with a load of monumental clay ! Thy Hector , wrapt in everlasting sleep , Shall neither hear thee figh , nor fee thee weep ...
... present shame , A thousand griefs shall waken at the name ; May I lie cold before that dreadful day , Preft with a load of monumental clay ! Thy Hector , wrapt in everlasting sleep , Shall neither hear thee figh , nor fee thee weep ...
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... present opinion of the present person ; he infinuates himself only into the esteem of fools , but is Loon detected , and furely defpifed , by every body else . The wife man ( who differs as much from the cunning as from the choleric man ) ...
... present opinion of the present person ; he infinuates himself only into the esteem of fools , but is Loon detected , and furely defpifed , by every body else . The wife man ( who differs as much from the cunning as from the choleric man ) ...
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... if he confer little , he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cun- ning to feem to know that he doth not , BACON . CHAPTER X. ON SATIRICAL WIT . TRUST me , this 108 Book III . DIDACTIC PIECES . Bacon.
... if he confer little , he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cun- ning to feem to know that he doth not , BACON . CHAPTER X. ON SATIRICAL WIT . TRUST me , this 108 Book III . DIDACTIC PIECES . Bacon.
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