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 EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - Počet stran: 346 |
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Strana xx
... consider- able pause , where the grammatical construction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is necessary , that , upon the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate ...
... consider- able pause , where the grammatical construction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is necessary , that , upon the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate ...
Strana xl
... consider- ed , Precision in the use of Terms , and Accuracy in the struc- ture of Sentences . VERBAL PRECISION requires , that a writer express his exact meaning , without tautology , ambiguity , or redun- dance ; that he be careful not ...
... consider- ed , Precision in the use of Terms , and Accuracy in the struc- ture of Sentences . VERBAL PRECISION requires , that a writer express his exact meaning , without tautology , ambiguity , or redun- dance ; that he be careful not ...
Strana 8
... 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 affords every worthy person in their favour , The ...
... 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 affords every worthy person in their favour , The ...
Strana 21
... . WORLD . CHAP . VII . THE CHOICE OF HERCULES . WHEN Hercules was in that part of his youth , in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a CHAP . VI . 21 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... . WORLD . CHAP . VII . THE CHOICE OF HERCULES . WHEN Hercules was in that part of his youth , in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue , he one day retired into a CHAP . VI . 21 NARRATIVE PIECES .
Strana 63
... consider as an act , the former as a habit of the mind . Mirth is short and transient , cheerfulness fixed and perma- nent . Those are often raised into the greatest transports 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 perma- nent . Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth , who are subject to the greatest depressions of ...
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