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 v
... truth , that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and ufeful accomplishment . With- out the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is fuf- ficiently obvious . Every one will ...
... truth , that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and ufeful accomplishment . With- out the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is fuf- ficiently obvious . Every one will ...
Pàgina xxxi
... Truth XV . Ode to Fancy XVI L'Allegro XVII . II Penferofo XVIII . The Progress of Life XIX . The Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London XX . Life XXI . Hotspur's Description of a Fop XXII . Clarence's Dream XXIII . Queen Mab XXIV ...
... Truth XV . Ode to Fancy XVI L'Allegro XVII . II Penferofo XVIII . The Progress of Life XIX . The Entry of Bolingbroke and Richard into London XX . Life XXI . Hotspur's Description of a Fop XXII . Clarence's Dream XXIII . Queen Mab XXIV ...
Pàgina 3
... TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature , to shake 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 ...
... TRUTH is born with us ; and we must do violence to nature , to shake 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 ...
Pàgina 6
... TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention ...
... TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention ...
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