Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryJ. Johnson, 1808 - 1120 pages An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... shew the high impor- tance of a good Delivery . I proceed , therefore , to such observations as appear to me most useful to be made on this head . The great objects which every public speaker will naturally have in his eye in forming ...
... shew the high impor- tance of a good Delivery . I proceed , therefore , to such observations as appear to me most useful to be made on this head . The great objects which every public speaker will naturally have in his eye in forming ...
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... shew in all affairs of moment , to remain quite unmoved in his outward appearance and to let the words drop from his mouth , without any expression of meaning or warmth in his gesture . 1 The fundamental rule as to propriety of action ...
... shew in all affairs of moment , to remain quite unmoved in his outward appearance and to let the words drop from his mouth , without any expression of meaning or warmth in his gesture . 1 The fundamental rule as to propriety of action ...
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... Shew me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds , which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant . The genius making me no au- swer , I turned about to address myself to him a second time ...
... Shew me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds , which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant . The genius making me no au- swer , I turned about to address myself to him a second time ...
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... shew , that as he is present to every thing , he cannot but be attentive to every thing , and privy to all the modes and parts of its existence : or , in other words , that bis omniscience and omnipresence are co - existent , and run ...
... shew , that as he is present to every thing , he cannot but be attentive to every thing , and privy to all the modes and parts of its existence : or , in other words , that bis omniscience and omnipresence are co - existent , and run ...
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... shews the winter , in which all the powers of vegetation are benumbed ; and the winter points out the time when life ... shew that the day is wasting ; if the change of seasons did not impress upon us the flight of the year ; quantities ...
... shews the winter , in which all the powers of vegetation are benumbed ; and the winter points out the time when life ... shew that the day is wasting ; if the change of seasons did not impress upon us the flight of the year ; quantities ...
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