The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises on Pronunciation, Pauses, Inflections, Accent, and Emphasis : Also, Copious Extracts in Prose and Poetry, Calculated to Assist the Teacher, and to Improve the Pupil in Reading and RecitationThomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1845 - 448 من الصفحات |
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... Constitution , ( delivered in the Convention of Virginia , June 5 , 1788 ) .. 53. Second Extract from the same .. 54. Third Extract from the same .. 55. Fourth Extract from the same . 56. Fifth Extract from the same ... 57. The Battle ...
... Constitution , ( delivered in the Convention of Virginia , June 5 , 1788 ) .. 53. Second Extract from the same .. 54. Third Extract from the same .. 55. Fourth Extract from the same . 56. Fifth Extract from the same ... 57. The Battle ...
الصفحة 48
... constitution . 2. Exercise and temperance strengthen even an INDIF- FERENT Constitution . The word printed in Roman capitals is pronounced with emphatic force ; those in small Italics are pronounced with accented force ; the rest ...
... constitution . 2. Exercise and temperance strengthen even an INDIF- FERENT Constitution . The word printed in Roman capitals is pronounced with emphatic force ; those in small Italics are pronounced with accented force ; the rest ...
الصفحة 49
... constitution . 2. You were paid to fight against Alexander , and not to rail ' at him . 3. The pleasures of the imagination are not so gross ' as those of sense ' , nor so refined ' as those of the understand- ing ' . * In these ...
... constitution . 2. You were paid to fight against Alexander , and not to rail ' at him . 3. The pleasures of the imagination are not so gross ' as those of sense ' , nor so refined ' as those of the understand- ing ' . * In these ...
الصفحة 58
... Trials in this state of being are the lot of man . * The place of the pause is immediately before each of the words printed in italics . 2. Such is the constitution of men , that virtue 58 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . RHETORICAL PAUSES.
... Trials in this state of being are the lot of man . * The place of the pause is immediately before each of the words printed in italics . 2. Such is the constitution of men , that virtue 58 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . RHETORICAL PAUSES.
الصفحة 59
... constitution of men , that virtue however it may be neglected for a time will ultimately be acknow- ledged and respected . RULE III . When any member comes between the verb and the objective or accusative case , it must be separated ...
... constitution of men , that virtue however it may be neglected for a time will ultimately be acknow- ledged and respected . RULE III . When any member comes between the verb and the objective or accusative case , it must be separated ...
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accent acute accent Æneid American antithesis arms army beauty blessings bosom brave British cæsura called character circumflex conduct constitution danger death declaration Demosthenes divine dread earth emphasis emphatic word enemies England epic poetry EXAMPLES falling inflection fame fathers fear feel force France friends gentlemen give glory grave grave accent Greece hand happiness hath heart heaven honour hope human independence inflection takes place king land laws liberty Lochinvar look mankind means ment mind mountains nations nature never o'er object opinion ourselves palæstra passions pause peace pleasure poetry possess principles pronounced prose racter reason require the rising rest rising inflection Rome ruin RULE Samian wine sense sentence slide smile soul Spain spirit sword syllable thee thing thou thought tion tone true truth verb verse victory Virgil Virginia virtue voice WILLIAM PENN
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 320 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 92 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
الصفحة 94 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come!! I repeat it, sir, let it come!!! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
الصفحة 94 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the bra«ve. Besides, sir, we have no election! If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.
الصفحة 207 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
الصفحة 92 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
الصفحة 381 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart — Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings ; while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice.
الصفحة 44 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
الصفحة 274 - And now, when comes the calm, mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home...
الصفحة 73 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.