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, Volúmenes1-2Vicesimus Knox T. Longman, 1797 - 1120 páginas |
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Página vii
... give moft body , moft pe : f - ver- ing force of found , to that pitch of voice , to which in converfation we are accuftom- ed . Whereas , by fetting out on our higà eft pitch or key , we certainly allow our- felves lefs compafs , and ...
... give moft body , moft pe : f - ver- ing force of found , to that pitch of voice , to which in converfation we are accuftom- ed . Whereas , by fetting out on our higà eft pitch or key , we certainly allow our- felves lefs compafs , and ...
Página viii
... give every word juft the fame accent in public speaking , as in common difcourfe . Many perfons err in this refpect . When they speak in public , and with folemnity , they pronounce the fyllables in a different manner from what they do ...
... give every word juft the fame accent in public speaking , as in common difcourfe . Many perfons err in this refpect . When they speak in public , and with folemnity , they pronounce the fyllables in a different manner from what they do ...
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... give pleafure ; and it can , I think , be clearly fhewn , that this is not a mere topic of declamation , but that the connection here alledged , is un- doubtedly founded in truth and reafon . For , confider , first , Whether any thing ...
... give pleafure ; and it can , I think , be clearly fhewn , that this is not a mere topic of declamation , but that the connection here alledged , is un- doubtedly founded in truth and reafon . For , confider , first , Whether any thing ...
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... give you a critical effay upon the ufe and abuse of time ; I will only give you fome hints , with regard to the ufe of one particular period of that long time which , I hope , you have before you ; I mean the next two years . Remember ...
... give you a critical effay upon the ufe and abuse of time ; I will only give you fome hints , with regard to the ufe of one particular period of that long time which , I hope , you have before you ; I mean the next two years . Remember ...
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... give way to the fublimer pleafures of reafon , which discover the caufes and defigns , the frame , connection , and fymmetry of things , and fill the mind with the contemplation of intellectual beauty , order , and truth . Hence I ...
... give way to the fublimer pleafures of reafon , which discover the caufes and defigns , the frame , connection , and fymmetry of things , and fill the mind with the contemplation of intellectual beauty , order , and truth . Hence I ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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