The Elements of Reading and OratoryD. Appleton, 1850 - 356 Seiten |
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... soul . " " In the morning it flourisheth : in the evening it is cut down . " A pause is necessary in these sentences after me , morning and evening . 5. A pause may be made between parts which may be trans- posed without injury to the ...
... soul . " " In the morning it flourisheth : in the evening it is cut down . " A pause is necessary in these sentences after me , morning and evening . 5. A pause may be made between parts which may be trans- posed without injury to the ...
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... soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it ; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased , the soul is in a state of happiness ; and , in the last place , considering that the happiness of another ...
... soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it ; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased , the soul is in a state of happiness ; and , in the last place , considering that the happiness of another ...
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... soul . He who is disposed to deny this , cannot have given much attention to the subject . Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus . God made man erect , rational , free , immortal . Examples of the conditional . Though he fall ...
... soul . He who is disposed to deny this , cannot have given much attention to the subject . Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus . God made man erect , rational , free , immortal . Examples of the conditional . Though he fall ...
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... soul by such a deed ! God grant to those few friends courage to declare themselves in oppo- sition to your formidable enemies ! Thus was felt his despotism over the heart ! The declarative exclamatory sentence is not always entire : it ...
... soul by such a deed ! God grant to those few friends courage to declare themselves in oppo- sition to your formidable enemies ! Thus was felt his despotism over the heart ! The declarative exclamatory sentence is not always entire : it ...
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... soul " ; but an entirely harmonious action in which all our powers and affections are blended in a beautiful proportion , and sustain and perfect one another . I know not what course others may take ' , but as for me , give me liberty ...
... soul " ; but an entirely harmonious action in which all our powers and affections are blended in a beautiful proportion , and sustain and perfect one another . I know not what course others may take ' , but as for me , give me liberty ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
3d FORM accent alphabetical Art thou Balt beauty beginning black crows blessed Cæsar character Christ circumflex Classif colon comma compact sentence compound sentence connected correlative words expressed death decl definite interrogative delivered delivery diphthong double compact earth elocution emphasis emphatic words employed English language Examples exclamation exclamatory sentences falling slide father followed fragmentary give glory hand happy hath heard heart heaven honor imperfect sense indefinite indirect interrogative interrogative sentences kind land liberty look loose sentence Lord lower sweep mind mixed sentence nature o'er parenthesis partial close passions pause peace perfect close phatic preceding proposition punctuation relative pronouns Rule semi-interrogative semicolon Sent simple sentence single compact soul sound speak spirit syllable tence thee thing thought tion triphthong truth understood unto verbs virtue voice vowel
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 98 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Seite 163 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Seite 338 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Seite 35 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Seite 180 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Seite 252 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Seite 133 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Seite 116 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Seite 183 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...
Seite 260 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...