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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1797 - 436 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxii
... hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little ftudied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and .. are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the ...
... hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little ftudied in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language of nature , and .. are ready to confider every attempt to recover it as the ...
Pàgina 1
... hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re . venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
... hath its ftated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to re . venge it afterwards . Ir is much better to reprove , than to be angry fecretly . No revenge ...
Pàgina 3
... hath a thorough tafte of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that ...
... hath a thorough tafte of profperity , to whom adverfity never happened . WHEN our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . PITCH upon that ...
Pàgina 7
... hath not paffed through the venom . thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brass ; the death thereof is an evil death ...
... hath not paffed through the venom . thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof , nor been bound in her bonds ; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron , and the bands thereof are bands of brass ; the death thereof is an evil death ...
Pàgina 8
... hath not done it ; and if he have , that he do it no more . Admonish thy friend ; it may be he hath not faid it or if he have , that he speak it not again . Admonish a friend ; for many times it is a flan- der ; and believe not every ...
... hath not done it ; and if he have , that he do it no more . Admonish thy friend ; it may be he hath not faid it or if he have , that he speak it not again . Admonish a friend ; for many times it is a flan- der ; and believe not every ...
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