The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces from the Best English Writers ...: To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution |
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It were much to be wished , that all public speakers . would deliver their thoughts and sentiments cither from memory or immediate conceprion ; for , besides that there is an artificial uniformity , which almost always distin . guishes ...
It were much to be wished , that all public speakers . would deliver their thoughts and sentiments cither from memory or immediate conceprion ; for , besides that there is an artificial uniformity , which almost always distin . guishes ...
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Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like'the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learning ; he never can be ...
Some would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like'the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learning ; he never can be ...
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Every person insensibly fixes upon some degree of refinement in his discourse , some measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wise to fix this pretty high , although it occasions one to talk the less .
Every person insensibly fixes upon some degree of refinement in his discourse , some measure of thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wise to fix this pretty high , although it occasions one to talk the less .
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... but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a ...
... but when that is once at an end , it is no more thought on , but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubbish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a ...
第 45 頁
She had a wonderful confidence and assurance in her looks , and all the variety of colours in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to show her complexion to advantage . She cast her eyes upon berself , then turned them on ...
She had a wonderful confidence and assurance in her looks , and all the variety of colours in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to show her complexion to advantage . She cast her eyes upon berself , then turned them on ...
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