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 Seiten |
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... hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we feem almoft to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the ...
... hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little studied in public fpeaking , that we feem almoft to have forgotten the language of nature , and are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the ...
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... hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
... hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re- venge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
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... their own . No man hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . When our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
... their own . No man hath a thorough taste of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . When our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide SELECT SENTENCES . Book I.
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... down is thruft away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers : he Ipeaketh things not to be fpoken , and yet men justify him : the poor man flipt , and they rebuked him ; 30 Book I SELECT SENTENCES .
... down is thruft away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers : he Ipeaketh things not to be fpoken , and yet men justify him : the poor man flipt , and they rebuked him ; 30 Book I SELECT SENTENCES .
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... hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in their bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brass ; the death thereof is an evil death ...
... hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in their bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brass ; the death thereof is an evil death ...
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