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 Elocution. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 sider |
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... feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrafe fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
... feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrafe fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
Side 64
... feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in spite of himself , and in defiance of all thofe checks and restraints his temper and complexion feem to have laid in his way . UPON the whole , I would endeavour to establish this maxim ...
... feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in spite of himself , and in defiance of all thofe checks and restraints his temper and complexion feem to have laid in his way . UPON the whole , I would endeavour to establish this maxim ...
Side 80
... to ali men ; he feems to have no opinion of his own , and fervilely adopts the prefent opinion of the present perfon ; he infinuates him- felf felf only into the esteem of fools , but is 80 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
... to ali men ; he feems to have no opinion of his own , and fervilely adopts the prefent opinion of the present perfon ; he infinuates him- felf felf only into the esteem of fools , but is 80 BOOK III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
Side 83
... feems very much to refemble instinct . It would be improper , therefore , to fay , that Sir Ifaac New- ton fhewed his good fenfe , by thofe amazing difcoveries which he made in natural philofophy : the operations of this gift of heaven ...
... feems very much to refemble instinct . It would be improper , therefore , to fay , that Sir Ifaac New- ton fhewed his good fenfe , by thofe amazing difcoveries which he made in natural philofophy : the operations of this gift of heaven ...
Side 84
... feems to lie in the commerce of the world . Accordingly we may obferve , that those who have converfed more with men than with books ; whofe wif dom is derived rather from experience than contemplation ; generally poffefs this happy ...
... feems to lie in the commerce of the world . Accordingly we may obferve , that those who have converfed more with men than with books ; whofe wif dom is derived rather from experience than contemplation ; generally poffefs this happy ...
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