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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - Počet stran: 346 |
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Strana xxv
... racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman has acquired by hav- ing learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb ...
... racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman has acquired by hav- ing learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb ...
Strana xxxi
... racter , and diffuse a graceful air over his whole conversation and manners . It is not unreasonable even to expect , that they who are habitually conversant with beautiful forms in nature and art , and are frequently employed in ...
... racter , and diffuse a graceful air over his whole conversation and manners . It is not unreasonable even to expect , that they who are habitually conversant with beautiful forms in nature and art , and are frequently employed in ...
Strana xxxv
... racter of thought in good writing - is the basis of perspicuity . A writer , whose feeble mind produces only half - formed em- * Scribendi rectè sapere est et principium et fous . → Hør , brios of thought , or whose impetuosity will ...
... racter of thought in good writing - is the basis of perspicuity . A writer , whose feeble mind produces only half - formed em- * Scribendi rectè sapere est et principium et fous . → Hør , brios of thought , or whose impetuosity will ...
Strana 61
... racter ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish awkward fellow , who has neither good breeding , politeness , nor any knowledge of the world . Again , a man of assurance , though at first it only denoted a person of a ...
... racter ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish awkward fellow , who has neither good breeding , politeness , nor any knowledge of the world . Again , a man of assurance , though at first it only denoted a person of a ...
Strana 127
... racter , or of mine ; what would they answer , but that they should wish the worthiest to be their sons ? If the patricians have reason to despise me , let them likewise despise their ancestors , whose nobility was the fruit of their ...
... racter , or of mine ; what would they answer , but that they should wish the worthiest to be their sons ? If the patricians have reason to despise me , let them likewise despise their ancestors , whose nobility was the fruit of their ...
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