The Fifth Or Elocutionary Reader: In which the Principles of Elocution are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules ; Designed for the Use of School and AcademiesPhinney & Company, 1859 - 480 من الصفحات |
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... never be wrested from him in time , and is proof against the fluctua tions and changes which characterize all other temporal means of happiness . 2. In whose praise is the historian most eloquent and fer- vid ? The name of Erasmus , a ...
... never be wrested from him in time , and is proof against the fluctua tions and changes which characterize all other temporal means of happiness . 2. In whose praise is the historian most eloquent and fer- vid ? The name of Erasmus , a ...
الصفحة 28
... never in want of occupation , though he may be in a bustling city or a sterile desert . 6. It is related of Mungo Park , ' that having traveled over the parched sands of Africa for several successive days , without food to nourish his ...
... never in want of occupation , though he may be in a bustling city or a sterile desert . 6. It is related of Mungo Park , ' that having traveled over the parched sands of Africa for several successive days , without food to nourish his ...
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... never heard of men who are called ungrateful ? " " Yes , frequently , " an- swered the youth . " And what is ingratitude ? " demanded Socrates . " It is to receive a kindness , " said Leander , " without making a proper return , when ...
... never heard of men who are called ungrateful ? " " Yes , frequently , " an- swered the youth . " And what is ingratitude ? " demanded Socrates . " It is to receive a kindness , " said Leander , " without making a proper return , when ...
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... never con - DE - SCEND to such meanness . 3. There is an impossiBILity in doing it . NOTE 3. Emphasis frequently changes the meaning of a sentence . EXAMPLES . 1. Do you go to Europe this year ? 2. Do you go to Europe this year ? 3. Do ...
... never con - DE - SCEND to such meanness . 3. There is an impossiBILity in doing it . NOTE 3. Emphasis frequently changes the meaning of a sentence . EXAMPLES . 1. Do you go to Europe this year ? 2. Do you go to Europe this year ? 3. Do ...
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... never dies . 8. OCCASIONAL mirth is not incompatible with wisdom . 9. WISE men commonly provide for the future . 10. By PRUDENCE , many evils and dungers are sHUNNED . 11. RASHNESS and FOLLY involve many men in trouble . 12. A good NAME ...
... never dies . 8. OCCASIONAL mirth is not incompatible with wisdom . 9. WISE men commonly provide for the future . 10. By PRUDENCE , many evils and dungers are sHUNNED . 11. RASHNESS and FOLLY involve many men in trouble . 12. A good NAME ...
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الصفحة 188 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection ! I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: Was that done like Cassius?
الصفحة 326 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
الصفحة 330 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
الصفحة 273 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
الصفحة 263 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice; and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
الصفحة 230 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
الصفحة 469 - Pale Hecate's offerings : and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
الصفحة 89 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
الصفحة 188 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
الصفحة 469 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.