Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix, Containing Concise Lessons on a New Plan, and Principles of English GrammarC. Elliot, 1789 - 398 psl. |
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... hours . He may place books before you , and compel you to fix your eyes upon them ; but no authority can chain down your mind . Your thoughts will efcape from every external restraint , and , amidst the moft ferious lectures , may be ...
... hours . He may place books before you , and compel you to fix your eyes upon them ; but no authority can chain down your mind . Your thoughts will efcape from every external restraint , and , amidst the moft ferious lectures , may be ...
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... hour great in- fluence in the republic . Power , founded on love and gratitude , was to him more pleasant than what is found- ed on fovereignty . His memory is reverenced by the Genoefe ; and , in their hiftories and public monuments ...
... hour great in- fluence in the republic . Power , founded on love and gratitude , was to him more pleasant than what is found- ed on fovereignty . His memory is reverenced by the Genoefe ; and , in their hiftories and public monuments ...
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... dedica- ted to the interefts of virtue , I defire you to recommend the long - neglected art of needle - work . Thofe hours 12 which in this age are thrown away in dress , which 54 PART B LESSONS Needle-work recommended the Ladies,
... dedica- ted to the interefts of virtue , I defire you to recommend the long - neglected art of needle - work . Thofe hours 12 which in this age are thrown away in dress , which 54 PART B LESSONS Needle-work recommended the Ladies,
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... hours in imitating fruits and flowers , and transplanting all the beauties of nature into their own drefs , or railing a new creation in their clofets and a- partments . How pleafing is the amufement of walk- ing among the fhades and ...
... hours in imitating fruits and flowers , and transplanting all the beauties of nature into their own drefs , or railing a new creation in their clofets and a- partments . How pleafing is the amufement of walk- ing among the fhades and ...
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... hours was employed in council ; where he difcuffed public af fairs , and determined private caufes , with a patience and difcretion above his years . The drynefs of business was enlivened by the charms of literature ; and a por- tion of ...
... hours was employed in council ; where he difcuffed public af fairs , and determined private caufes , with a patience and difcretion above his years . The drynefs of business was enlivened by the charms of literature ; and a por- tion of ...
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