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, 1797 - 436 Seiten |
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... gives him a previ- ous knowledge of the feveral inflexions , emphafes , and tones which the words require . And by tak- ing off his eye from the book , it in part , relieves him from the influence of the school - boy habit of reading in ...
... gives him a previ- ous knowledge of the feveral inflexions , emphafes , and tones which the words require . And by tak- ing off his eye from the book , it in part , relieves him from the influence of the school - boy habit of reading in ...
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... give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear , as the ...
... give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing , who perhaps may excel us in many . No object is more pleafing to the eye , than the fight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear , as the ...
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... gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which ...
... gives the perfons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favour . THE difference there is betwixt honour and honesty seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honeft man does that from duty , which ...
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... gives up his youth to indolence , undergoes a lofs of the fame kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once ...
... gives up his youth to indolence , undergoes a lofs of the fame kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once ...
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... , the Poet's pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues 14 Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
... , the Poet's pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do , Not Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues 14 Book 1 . SELECT SENTENCES .
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