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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1805 - 396 страници |
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... Speaking William Enfield. THE SPEAKER : OR , MISCELLANEOUS PIECES , Selected from the BEST ENGLISII WRITERS , And difpofed under proper Heads , with a View to facilitate THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH IN READING AND SPEAKING . A new Edition ...
... Speaking William Enfield. THE SPEAKER : OR , MISCELLANEOUS PIECES , Selected from the BEST ENGLISII WRITERS , And difpofed under proper Heads , with a View to facilitate THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH IN READING AND SPEAKING . A new Edition ...
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... Speaking William Enfield. BOOK , IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . Chap . 1 On Anger Pagel Chap . Holland 125 4 On the Immortality of the 2 Virtue our higheft Interest 3 The fame Subjec Chap . Soul Harris 1315 On the Being of a God ib . 133 ...
... Speaking William Enfield. BOOK , IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . Chap . 1 On Anger Pagel Chap . Holland 125 4 On the Immortality of the 2 Virtue our higheft Interest 3 The fame Subjec Chap . Soul Harris 1315 On the Being of a God ib . 133 ...
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... Speaking William Enfield. feribed ; that all artificial rules are ufelefs ; and that good fense , and a cultivated taste , are the only requifites to form a good public fpeaker . But it is true in the art of fpeak- ing , as well as in ...
... Speaking William Enfield. feribed ; that all artificial rules are ufelefs ; and that good fense , and a cultivated taste , are the only requifites to form a good public fpeaker . But it is true in the art of fpeak- ing , as well as in ...
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... Speaking William Enfield. formly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely impoffible that there fhould be strong emphafis ... speak- ing ; let all the confonant founds be expreffed with a full impulfe or percuffion of the breath , and a ...
... Speaking William Enfield. formly rapid utterance , it is abfolutely impoffible that there fhould be strong emphafis ... speak- ing ; let all the confonant founds be expreffed with a full impulfe or percuffion of the breath , and a ...
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... Speaking William Enfield. priety , are determined to command the attention of the vulgar . Thefe are the fpeakers who , in ... speak- ers is chiefly owing to the neglect of this rule . They commonly content themselves with one certain key ...
... Speaking William Enfield. priety , are determined to command the attention of the vulgar . Thefe are the fpeakers who , in ... speak- ers is chiefly owing to the neglect of this rule . They commonly content themselves with one certain key ...
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