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 is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1782 - 405 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxi
... muft be wholly loft . IN executing this part of the office of a fpeaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points ufed in printing ; for these are far from marking all the paufes which ought to be made in fpeaking . A ...
... muft be wholly loft . IN executing this part of the office of a fpeaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points ufed in printing ; for these are far from marking all the paufes which ought to be made in fpeaking . A ...
Pàgina xxv
... muft , in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual . And , perhaps , the only in- ftruction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Obferve in what manner the feveral emotions or paffions are ex- preffed ...
... muft , in my apprehenfion , be weak and ineffectual . And , perhaps , the only in- ftruction which can be given with advantage on this head , is this general one : Obferve in what manner the feveral emotions or paffions are ex- preffed ...
Pàgina 2
... which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet ' found , who would acknowledge himself guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us ; and we muft do SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
... which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet ' found , who would acknowledge himself guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us ; and we muft do SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I.
Pàgina 3
... muft do violence to nature , to fhake off our veracity . THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it .. By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of ...
... muft do violence to nature , to fhake off our veracity . THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it .. By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of ...
Pàgina 5
... and ill nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . 5.
... and ill nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but to to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole CHAP . IV . SELECT SENTENCES . 5.
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