Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1T. Longman, B. Law&Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G.&J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Richardson, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, F.&C. Rivington, R. Faulder, S. Hayes, Ogilvy&Speare, Vernor&Hood, W. Lowndes, C. Wynne, W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, G.&T. Wilkie, J. Walker, J. Evans, C.&G. Kearsley, and H. Murray, 1794 - 1119 pages |
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... eyes of veteran readers , yet they will always be new to a rifing generation . The greater part of this book , however , confifts of extracts from more modern books , and from fome which have not yet been used for the purpose of ...
... eyes of veteran readers , yet they will always be new to a rifing generation . The greater part of this book , however , confifts of extracts from more modern books , and from fome which have not yet been used for the purpose of ...
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... eyes do drop no tears ; his prayers are jeft ; His words come from his mouth ; ours , from our breaft : He prays but ... eye in forming his Delivery , are , firft , to fpeak fo as to be fully and easily understood by all who hear him ...
... eyes do drop no tears ; his prayers are jeft ; His words come from his mouth ; ours , from our breaft : He prays but ... eye in forming his Delivery , are , firft , to fpeak fo as to be fully and easily understood by all who hear him ...
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... eyes * . : The few following hints only I fhall adven- ture to throw out , in cafe they may be of any fer- vice . When speaking in public , one should study to preserve as much dignity as poffible in the whole altitude of the body . An ...
... eyes * . : The few following hints only I fhall adven- ture to throw out , in cafe they may be of any fer- vice . When speaking in public , one should study to preserve as much dignity as poffible in the whole altitude of the body . An ...
Page xv
... eyes , addreffing us perfonally on some subject of importance , the opinion we entertain of his character must have a much more powerful effect . But , left it should be said , that this relates only to the character of virtue , which ...
... eyes , addreffing us perfonally on some subject of importance , the opinion we entertain of his character must have a much more powerful effect . But , left it should be said , that this relates only to the character of virtue , which ...
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... eyes towards the fummit of a rock that was not far from me , where I difco- vered one in the habit of a fhepherd , with a little musical instrument in his hand . As I looked upon him , he applied it to his lips , and began to play upon ...
... eyes towards the fummit of a rock that was not far from me , where I difco- vered one in the habit of a fhepherd , with a little musical instrument in his hand . As I looked upon him , he applied it to his lips , and began to play upon ...
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