The English Reader Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best WritersLongmann and Rees, 1799 - 356 páginas |
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... young Persons • TO READ WITH PROPRIETY AND EFFECT ; TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SENTIMENTS ; AND TO INCULCATE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES OF PIETY AND VIRTUE . With a few preliminary Obfervations ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD ...
... young Persons • TO READ WITH PROPRIETY AND EFFECT ; TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SENTIMENTS ; AND TO INCULCATE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES OF PIETY AND VIRTUE . With a few preliminary Obfervations ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD ...
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... young perfons . Per- formances of this kind are of so great utility , that fresh productions of them , and new attempts to improve the young mind , will fcarcely be deemed fuperfluous , if the writer make his compilation inftructive and ...
... young perfons . Per- formances of this kind are of so great utility , that fresh productions of them , and new attempts to improve the young mind , will fcarcely be deemed fuperfluous , if the writer make his compilation inftructive and ...
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... young perfons , the preponderance is greatly on the fide of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improvement . When the imagination , of youth efpecially , is much entertained , the fober dic ...
... young perfons , the preponderance is greatly on the fide of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improvement . When the imagination , of youth efpecially , is much entertained , the fober dic ...
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... young reader fome taste of the fubject ; and to afsift him in acquiring a juft and accurate mode of delivery . The obfervations which we have to make , for these pur- pofes , may be comprised under the following heads : PROPER LOUDNESS ...
... young reader fome taste of the fubject ; and to afsift him in acquiring a juft and accurate mode of delivery . The obfervations which we have to make , for these pur- pofes , may be comprised under the following heads : PROPER LOUDNESS ...
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... young , in a loud and ve- hement manner , the voice becomes fixed in a ftrained and unnatural key ; and is rendered incapable of that variety of elevation and depression which conflitutes the true har- mony of utterance , and affords ...
... young , in a loud and ve- hement manner , the voice becomes fixed in a ftrained and unnatural key ; and is rendered incapable of that variety of elevation and depression which conflitutes the true har- mony of utterance , and affords ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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