An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersPratt, Woodford & Company, 1845 - 357 páginas |
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... reader with many new and judicious selections both in prose and poetry ; and altogether evinces great industry , combined with taste and ingenuity . Courier of Upper Canada , York , Oct. 12 , 1833 . Of the talent and judgment of Mr ...
... reader with many new and judicious selections both in prose and poetry ; and altogether evinces great industry , combined with taste and ingenuity . Courier of Upper Canada , York , Oct. 12 , 1833 . Of the talent and judgment of Mr ...
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... reader , what a fence is to a horse , when it ob- structs his progress to a field of sprouting herbage , which he considers himself justifiable to enter by leaping over the barrier . The reader wades through a long preface with as much ...
... reader , what a fence is to a horse , when it ob- structs his progress to a field of sprouting herbage , which he considers himself justifiable to enter by leaping over the barrier . The reader wades through a long preface with as much ...
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... readers . " The cumbrous labours of such men prove unavailing , from an apparently trifling difference of opinion between them and the world which they attempt to enlighten . With an honest zeal they maintain , that their productions ...
... readers . " The cumbrous labours of such men prove unavailing , from an apparently trifling difference of opinion between them and the world which they attempt to enlighten . With an honest zeal they maintain , that their productions ...
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... readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness . Hence , such books are worse than no books . What , then , is to be done , in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been rapidly increasing ever ...
... readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness . Hence , such books are worse than no books . What , then , is to be done , in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been rapidly increasing ever ...
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... reader , lest , by this time , you may think me inclined to be garrulous , if not flighty , upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me , I will now put a bridle upon my wayward thoughts , and lead them directly into the channel ...
... reader , lest , by this time , you may think me inclined to be garrulous , if not flighty , upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me , I will now put a bridle upon my wayward thoughts , and lead them directly into the channel ...
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