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 стор. |
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... look for this ftandard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the cor- rectness and precision of true learning , combine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe ...
... look for this ftandard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the cor- rectness and precision of true learning , combine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe ...
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... Looks , and Geftures . THERE is the language of emotions and paffions , as well as of ideas . To exprefs the latter is the peculiar pro- vince of words ; to exprefs the former , nature teaches us to make use of tones , looks , and ...
... Looks , and Geftures . THERE is the language of emotions and paffions , as well as of ideas . To exprefs the latter is the peculiar pro- vince of words ; to exprefs the former , nature teaches us to make use of tones , looks , and ...
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... looks , and geftures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other active paffion arifes in our minds , we naturally difcover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the countenance , and ...
... looks , and geftures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other active paffion arifes in our minds , we naturally difcover it by the particular manner in which we utter our words ; by the features of the countenance , and ...
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... look , what he faith , they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they fay , What fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the fword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended ...
... look , what he faith , they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they fay , What fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the fword , but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended ...
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... looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep./ -Who fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear an ...
... looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep./ -Who fhall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? let none prefume To wear an ...
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