Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... night preceeding the battle of Bosworth , Tragedy of Rich'd III . 363 25. The world compared to a stage , As you like it , APPENDIX - Containing concise lessons on a new plan , 363 364 SECTION I. On the Speaking of Speeches at Schools ...
... night preceeding the battle of Bosworth , Tragedy of Rich'd III . 363 25. The world compared to a stage , As you like it , APPENDIX - Containing concise lessons on a new plan , 363 364 SECTION I. On the Speaking of Speeches at Schools ...
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... night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones which , they use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and ...
... night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones which , they use , than in the key in which they speak . Reading and ...
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... night , to inquire , among the most learned physicians , au infallible remedy for your disease , and have , at length happily been informed of one . It is a plaster made of part of a Wolf's skin taken warm from his back , and laid to ...
... night , to inquire , among the most learned physicians , au infallible remedy for your disease , and have , at length happily been informed of one . It is a plaster made of part of a Wolf's skin taken warm from his back , and laid to ...
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... nights ago in company with very agreeable young people , of both sexes , where talking of some of your papers , which are written on con- jugal love , there arose a dispute among us whether there were not more bad husbands in the world ...
... nights ago in company with very agreeable young people , of both sexes , where talking of some of your papers , which are written on con- jugal love , there arose a dispute among us whether there were not more bad husbands in the world ...
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... night , the change of seasons with all that variety of scenes which diversify the face of nature , and fill the mind with a perpetual succession of beautiful and pleasing images . I shall not here mention the several entertainments of ...
... night , the change of seasons with all that variety of scenes which diversify the face of nature , and fill the mind with a perpetual succession of beautiful and pleasing images . I shall not here mention the several entertainments of ...
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