Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions and Emotions of the Mind |
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... Beauty and deformity , 15 Remarkable instance of friendship , 16 Dionysius and Damocles , 17 Character of Cataline , 18 Avarice and Luxury , 19 Hercules ' choice , Percival's tales 44 Art of speaking 44 ibid Sallust 45 46 Spectator 46 ...
... Beauty and deformity , 15 Remarkable instance of friendship , 16 Dionysius and Damocles , 17 Character of Cataline , 18 Avarice and Luxury , 19 Hercules ' choice , Percival's tales 44 Art of speaking 44 ibid Sallust 45 46 Spectator 46 ...
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... beauty , and killing , puts a fine woman by turns into all sorts of forms , appearances and attitudes , but amiable ones . She undoes , by art or rather by awkwardness , [ for true art conceals itself ] all that nature had done for her ...
... beauty , and killing , puts a fine woman by turns into all sorts of forms , appearances and attitudes , but amiable ones . She undoes , by art or rather by awkwardness , [ for true art conceals itself ] all that nature had done for her ...
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... Beauty and Deformity . A YOUTH , who lived in the country , and who had not ac- quired either by reading or conversation , any knowledge of the animals which inhabit foreign regions , came to Manchester , to see an exhibition of wild ...
... Beauty and Deformity . A YOUTH , who lived in the country , and who had not ac- quired either by reading or conversation , any knowledge of the animals which inhabit foreign regions , came to Manchester , to see an exhibition of wild ...
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... beauty were ordered to wait on him at table , and to obey his commands , with the greatest readiness , and the most profound submission . Neither ointments , chaplets of flowers , nor rich perfumes , were wanting . The table was loaded ...
... beauty were ordered to wait on him at table , and to obey his commands , with the greatest readiness , and the most profound submission . Neither ointments , chaplets of flowers , nor rich perfumes , were wanting . The table was loaded ...
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... beauty was natural and easy , her person clean , and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground , with an agreea- ble reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal ...
... beauty was natural and easy , her person clean , and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground , with an agreea- ble reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal ...
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