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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Page 47
... father of a family would often range himself under the banners of Avarice , and the son under those of Luxury . The wife and husband would often declare themselves of the two different parties ; nay , the same person would very often ...
... father of a family would often range himself under the banners of Avarice , and the son under those of Luxury . The wife and husband would often declare themselves of the two different parties ; nay , the same person would very often ...
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... fathers of families , a patron and protector of servants , an associate in all true and generous friendships . The banquets of my votaries are never costly , but always delicious ; for none eat and drink at them , who are not invited by ...
... fathers of families , a patron and protector of servants , an associate in all true and generous friendships . The banquets of my votaries are never costly , but always delicious ; for none eat and drink at them , who are not invited by ...
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... father's literary friends . A party was therefore collected : and , after dinner , the ma- nuscript was produced . Julius declined the office of reader , be- cause he had contracted a hoarseness on his journey : and a conceited young ...
... father's literary friends . A party was therefore collected : and , after dinner , the ma- nuscript was produced . Julius declined the office of reader , be- cause he had contracted a hoarseness on his journey : and a conceited young ...
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... Father of the universe , and the author of all felicity ? Unmoved by veneration , can you contemplate that grandeur ... fathers ; of him to whom your parents devoted you : of him whom , in former ages , your an- cestors honoured ; and by ...
... Father of the universe , and the author of all felicity ? Unmoved by veneration , can you contemplate that grandeur ... fathers ; of him to whom your parents devoted you : of him whom , in former ages , your an- cestors honoured ; and by ...
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... FATHER of his COUNTRY , and RESTORER of its LIBERTY . X. On Contentment . CONTENTMENT produces , in some measure , all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not ...
... FATHER of his COUNTRY , and RESTORER of its LIBERTY . X. On Contentment . CONTENTMENT produces , in some measure , all those effects which the alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone ; and if it does not ...
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