A Course of Lectures on Elocution:: Together with Two Dissertations on Language; and Some Other Tracts Relative to Those SubjectsPrinted, by assignment from the executors of James Dodsley, for C. Dilly; T.N. Longman; Vernor and Hood; J. Walker; C. Law ... [and 3 others], 1798 - Elocution - 365 pages |
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... MOST OBLIGED , MOST DEVOTED , AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT THOMAS SHERIDAN . INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE . HERE has been no maxim more frequent- 329084 50420. ...
... MOST OBLIGED , MOST DEVOTED , AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT THOMAS SHERIDAN . INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE . HERE has been no maxim more frequent- 329084 50420. ...
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... most importance in the argument . But he might have judged from the great difficulty which he himself found in accom- plifhing this point , and from his own experi- ence , of the great care and pains it coft , to fe- parate ideas from ...
... most importance in the argument . But he might have judged from the great difficulty which he himself found in accom- plifhing this point , and from his own experi- ence , of the great care and pains it coft , to fe- parate ideas from ...
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... most eminent of our writers have employed their labours , hitherto to little purpofe ? Have not these been the chief objects in the works of our most celebrat 、 ed divines , moralifts , metaphyficians , critics , writers of effays ...
... most eminent of our writers have employed their labours , hitherto to little purpofe ? Have not these been the chief objects in the works of our most celebrat 、 ed divines , moralifts , metaphyficians , critics , writers of effays ...
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... most readers , yet as it deferves to be attentively confidered by all , I fhall make no apology for inferting it here . · What I had the honour to mention to your Lordship fome time ago in conversation , was ' not a new thought , juft ...
... most readers , yet as it deferves to be attentively confidered by all , I fhall make no apology for inferting it here . · What I had the honour to mention to your Lordship fome time ago in conversation , was ' not a new thought , juft ...
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... most people speak juftly , and forcibly in company , upon topics wherein they are nearly interested , we may conclude with cer- tainty , that there are no natural impediments in their way , to do the fame in public alfo . If If any ...
... most people speak juftly , and forcibly in company , upon topics wherein they are nearly interested , we may conclude with cer- tainty , that there are no natural impediments in their way , to do the fame in public alfo . If If any ...
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