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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... Truth 15 Ode to Fancy Warton 276 16 L'Allegro 17 11 Penferofo 5 The Country Clergyman 24 7 Grongar Hill Goldsmith 249 25 8 Hymn to Adverfity Green 35126 Ode to Spring Dyer 254 Gray 259 27 Domestie Love and Happi- 9 Ode on a distant ...
... Truth 15 Ode to Fancy Warton 276 16 L'Allegro 17 11 Penferofo 5 The Country Clergyman 24 7 Grongar Hill Goldsmith 249 25 8 Hymn to Adverfity Green 35126 Ode to Spring Dyer 254 Gray 259 27 Domestie Love and Happi- 9 Ode on a distant ...
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... truth , that to be able to fpeak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . Without the laboured panegyries of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is folliciently obvious . Every one will acknowledge it ...
... truth , that to be able to fpeak well is an ornamental and useful accomplishment . Without the laboured panegyries of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is folliciently obvious . Every one will acknowledge it ...
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... Truth is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature , to shake off our veracity . There cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By other's faults , wife men correct their own . No ...
... Truth is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature , to shake off our veracity . There cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By other's faults , wife men correct their own . No ...
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... Truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention ...
... Truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention ...
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... truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trou- ble . Forfake ...
... truth ; under- ftand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hafty to credit him ; for fome men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trou- ble . Forfake ...
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