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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Page vii
... greater quantity of voice , than you can af- ford without pain to yourselves , and with- out any extraordinary effort . As long as you keep within these bounds , the other organs of fpeech will be at liberty to dif charge their feveral ...
... greater quantity of voice , than you can af- ford without pain to yourselves , and with- out any extraordinary effort . As long as you keep within these bounds , the other organs of fpeech will be at liberty to dif charge their feveral ...
Page xiii
... greater advantage to be- ginners , than any mirror they can ufe . With regard to particular rules concerning action and gefticulation , Quinctilian has de- livered a great many , in the laft chapter of the 11th Book of his Inftitutions ...
... greater advantage to be- ginners , than any mirror they can ufe . With regard to particular rules concerning action and gefticulation , Quinctilian has de- livered a great many , in the laft chapter of the 11th Book of his Inftitutions ...
Page xiv
... greater is . the honour of approaching to it , though we do not fully attain it . The number of orators who stand in the highest class is , perhaps , smaller than the number of poets who are foremost in poetic fame ; but the study of ...
... greater is . the honour of approaching to it , though we do not fully attain it . The number of orators who stand in the highest class is , perhaps , smaller than the number of poets who are foremost in poetic fame ; but the study of ...
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Vicesimus Knox. lows the mind to indulge parental affec- tion with greater intenfenefs . My birth was celebrated by the tenants with feafts , and dances , and bagpipes ; congratulations were fent from every family within ten miles round ...
Vicesimus Knox. lows the mind to indulge parental affec- tion with greater intenfenefs . My birth was celebrated by the tenants with feafts , and dances , and bagpipes ; congratulations were fent from every family within ten miles round ...
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... greater variety of business to which we may apply ourselves . Reafon opens to us a large field of affairs , which other creatures are not capable of . Beafts of prey , and I believe of all other kinds , in their natural state of being ...
... greater variety of business to which we may apply ourselves . Reafon opens to us a large field of affairs , which other creatures are not capable of . Beafts of prey , and I believe of all other kinds , in their natural state of being ...
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affiftance againſt alfo bad company becauſe beft beſt bleffings cafe caufe chearful chearfulneſs Chrift Chriftian confequence confider confideration converfation courfe defign defire difcover difpofed difpofition divine duty endeavour faid fame fecurity feek feem felves fenfe fenfible fent fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fociety fome foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fure give greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human inftances intereft itſelf juft laft leaft lefs ligion mankind manner ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffefs poffible prefent preferve purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect reft religion ſhall ſpeak ſtate temper thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe virtue whofe wifdom youth