Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 стор. An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... force , so as to please and to move his audience . Let us consider what is most important with respect to each of these * . In order to be fully and easily under- stood , the four chief requisites are , A due degree of loudness of voice ...
... force , so as to please and to move his audience . Let us consider what is most important with respect to each of these * . In order to be fully and easily under- stood , the four chief requisites are , A due degree of loudness of voice ...
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... force able to meet him in the open field ; but we must harafs him by depredations : thus the war must be car- ried on at first . We therefore cannot think of raifing a prodigious army ( for fuch we have neither pay nor provisions ) ...
... force able to meet him in the open field ; but we must harafs him by depredations : thus the war must be car- ried on at first . We therefore cannot think of raifing a prodigious army ( for fuch we have neither pay nor provisions ) ...
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... force of the tender paffions was great over her , but the force of her mind was fill fuperior ; and the combat which her victo ry visibly coft her , ferves only to difplay the firmnefs of her refolution , and the lofti- nefs of her ...
... force of the tender paffions was great over her , but the force of her mind was fill fuperior ; and the combat which her victo ry visibly coft her , ferves only to difplay the firmnefs of her refolution , and the lofti- nefs of her ...
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