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" ... you may see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening... "
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The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends, Volume 2

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1778 - 490 pages
...feveral different cocks, examining fometimes the lining and fometimes the button, during the whole courfe of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver : when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the Britifh nation." But among the orators of Greece...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...pockets as far as ever they can thrust them, and others looking with great attention on a piece of paper that has nothing written on it; you may see...harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation. I remember when I was a young...
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The Spectator ...

1803 - 436 pages
...thrust them, and others looking with great attention on a piece of paper that has nothing written in it ; you may see many a smart rhetorician turning...harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation. I remember, when I was a young...
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1804 - 412 pages
...pockets as far as ever they can thrust them, and others looking with great attention on a piece of paper that has nothing written on it ; you may see...harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation. I remember, when I was a young...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...pockets as far as ever they can thrust them, and others looking with great attention on a piece of paper that has nothing written on it. You may see...harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when, perhaps, he is talking of the fate of the British nation. I remember, when I was a young...
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The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his friends ..., Volume 2

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 482 pages
...powerless or ridiculous. " You may see many a. smart rhetorician (says the inimitable Mr. Addison) turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks, examining sometimes the l>nin<* and o sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 344 pages
...others looking with great attention on a piece of paper that has nothing written on it; you maysee many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands,...harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation. I remember, when I was a young...
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The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal ..., Volume 1

1808 - 306 pages
...thrnst them, and others looking with great attention on a piece of paper that has nothing written in it ; you may see many a smart rhetorician turning...examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the hutton, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a heaver,...
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The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends, Volume 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Authors, Latin - 1808 - 324 pages
...his hat in his hands, moulding it " into several different cocks, examining sometimes the " lining and sometimes the button, during the whole course " of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was chcapen" ing a beaver; when, perhaps, he is talking of the fate of "the British nation." But among...
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The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Several of His Friends, Volume 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Authors, Latin - 1808 - 332 pages
...powerless or ridiculous. " You " may see many a smart rhetorician (says the inimitable " Mr Addison) turning his hat in his hands, moulding it " into several...different cocks, examining sometimes the " lining and sometimes the button, during the whole coarse " of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was...
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