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 страници |
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... It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is al- ways of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to ...
... It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; fhe has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is al- ways of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to ...
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... 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 troublefome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good ...
... 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 troublefome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good ...
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... it is old , thou shalt drink it with pleasure . A FRIEND cannot be known in profperity ; and an ene- my cannot be hidden in adverfity . ADMONISH thy friend ; it may be he hath not done it ; and if he have , that he do it no more ...
... it is old , thou shalt drink it with pleasure . A FRIEND cannot be known in profperity ; and an ene- my cannot be hidden in adverfity . ADMONISH thy friend ; it may be he hath not done it ; and if he have , that he do it no more ...
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... it is better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the ... 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 ...
... it is better living on a little , than out - living a great deal . NEXT to the fatisfaction I receive in the ... 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 ...
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... it for granted there would be as much genero fity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in fermons or ferious difcourfes , are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleafing to those who come only for amusement , but prejudicial ...
... it for granted there would be as much genero fity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in fermons or ferious difcourfes , are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleafing to those who come only for amusement , but prejudicial ...
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