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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... use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To obferve the various ways by which nature expref- fes the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of ...
... use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To obferve the various ways by which nature expref- fes the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of ...
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... use of the language . All endeavours therefore to make men Orators , by defcribing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft , in my apprehenfion ...
... use of the language . All endeavours therefore to make men Orators , by defcribing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the paffions , muft , in my apprehenfion ...
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... use this expreffion , I am inclined to think fo and fo , not confidering that they are then speaking the most literal of all truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it ...
... use this expreffion , I am inclined to think fo and fo , not confidering that they are then speaking the most literal of all truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it ...
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... use : keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check'd for filence , But never task'd for speech . The cloud - capt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall ...
... use : keep thy friend Under thy own life's key : be check'd for filence , But never task'd for speech . The cloud - capt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall ...
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... uses his best endeavours to live according to the dictates of virtue and right reafon , has two perpetual fources of cheerfulness , in the confideration of his own na- ture , and of that Being on whom he has a dependence . If he looks ...
... uses his best endeavours to live according to the dictates of virtue and right reafon , has two perpetual fources of cheerfulness , in the confideration of his own na- ture , and of that Being on whom he has a dependence . If he looks ...
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