The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 Seiten |
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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 ridi- cule , sometimes with contempt ...
... 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 ridi- cule , sometimes with contempt ...
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... considering that they are then speaking 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 speaking 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 ...
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... 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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... consider Cheerfulness in three lights , with regard to ourselves , to those we converse with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is possessed of this ...
... consider Cheerfulness in three lights , with regard to ourselves , to those we converse with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is possessed of this ...
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