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 ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 pages |
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... thoughts and fenti- ments , either from memory or immediate concep- tion ; for , befides that there is an artificial uni formity , which almost always diftinguishes read- ing from fpeaking , the fixed pofture , and the bending bending ...
... thoughts and fenti- ments , either from memory or immediate concep- tion ; for , befides that there is an artificial uni formity , which almost always diftinguishes read- ing from fpeaking , the fixed pofture , and the bending bending ...
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... thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can be wife but by ...
... thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can be wife but by ...
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... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions one to talk the lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armour ...
... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wife to fix this pretty high , although it occafions one to talk the lefs . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armour ...
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... thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean , but a necessary substitute for it , in societies ...
... thought on , but fleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . HONOUR is but a fictitious kind of honefty ; a mean , but a necessary substitute for it , in societies ...
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... thought own ? Yes , fays the man . fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he he you . Any thing to please , says the 26 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... thought own ? Yes , fays the man . fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he he you . Any thing to please , says the 26 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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