The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces from the Best English Writers ...: To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionWilson, 1812 - 384 頁 |
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... consider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the same ; and every judicious imitation of it will always be pleasing . Nor can any one deserve the appellation of a good speaker ...
... consider every attempt to recover it as the laboured and affected effort of art . But Nature is always the same ; and every judicious imitation of it will always be pleasing . Nor can any one deserve the appellation of a good speaker ...
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... consider the business he has to perform in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is that the character of an Orator has of late often been treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We ...
... consider the business he has to perform in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence it is that the character of an Orator has of late often been treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We ...
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... so and so , not considering that they are then speak- ing the most literal of all truths . Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives the . persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it 30 Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
... so and so , not considering that they are then speak- ing the most literal of all truths . Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives the . persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it 30 Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
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... consider what course of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a desert , where the silence and solitude of the place very much favoured his meditations . As he was musing on his present con- dition , and very much perplexed ...
... consider what course of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a desert , where the silence and solitude of the place very much favoured his meditations . As he was musing on his present con- dition , and very much perplexed ...
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... consider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest trans- ports of mirth , who are subject to the greatest depressions of ...
... consider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and permanent . Those are often raised into the greatest trans- ports of mirth , who are subject to the greatest depressions of ...
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