The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which are Prefixed Two Essays |
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... ROMANS , ON " Young , 119 Page 7. THE EARL OF ARUNDEL'S SPEECH , PROPOSING AN ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN HENRY II AND STE- PHEN ................ Lord Lyttelton , 134 8. MR . PULTENEY'S , ON THE MOTION FOR REDUCING THE ARMY ...... 138 9. SIR ...
... ROMANS , ON " Young , 119 Page 7. THE EARL OF ARUNDEL'S SPEECH , PROPOSING AN ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN HENRY II AND STE- PHEN ................ Lord Lyttelton , 134 8. MR . PULTENEY'S , ON THE MOTION FOR REDUCING THE ARMY ...... 138 9. SIR ...
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... Roman languages , is arrived at a fertile and well - cultivated plain , every where adorned with the fairest flowers , and enriched with the choicest fruits . The writings of the ancients abound with excellent pro- ductions in every ...
... Roman languages , is arrived at a fertile and well - cultivated plain , every where adorned with the fairest flowers , and enriched with the choicest fruits . The writings of the ancients abound with excellent pro- ductions in every ...
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... Roman writers furnish those , who have en- joyed the advantage of a classical education . But , without having recourse to the ancients , it is possible to find in modern languages valuable specimens of every species of polite ...
... Roman writers furnish those , who have en- joyed the advantage of a classical education . But , without having recourse to the ancients , it is possible to find in modern languages valuable specimens of every species of polite ...
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... Romans , had several complaints laid against him before the senate , as a tyrant and oppressor of his subjects . The prince went to Rome to defend his father , but coming into the senate , and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon ...
... Romans , had several complaints laid against him before the senate , as a tyrant and oppressor of his subjects . The prince went to Rome to defend his father , but coming into the senate , and hearing a multitude of crimes proved upon ...
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... Romans , turn your eyes to that sad spectacle -- the daughter of Lucretius , Collatinus's wife -she died by her own hand . See there a noble lady , whom the lust of a Tarquin reduced to the necessity of being her own executioner , to ...
... Romans , turn your eyes to that sad spectacle -- the daughter of Lucretius , Collatinus's wife -she died by her own hand . See there a noble lady , whom the lust of a Tarquin reduced to the necessity of being her own executioner , to ...
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