An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindSeward and Williams, 1813 - 226 Seiten |
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... soon blasted by rashness and negligence ; and great designs , which are defeated by experience . In age , we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
... soon blasted by rashness and negligence ; and great designs , which are defeated by experience . In age , we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to prompt them . We are able to plan schemes and regulate ...
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... soon . Whilst an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by the worst performance ; when he is dead , we rate them by his best . Men are grateful , in the same degree that they are re- sentful . Young men are subtle arguers ; the ...
... soon . Whilst an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by the worst performance ; when he is dead , we rate them by his best . Men are grateful , in the same degree that they are re- sentful . Young men are subtle arguers ; the ...
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... soon as he was settled , he mounted on horseback , and went alone to the village . It was ten at night before he got there ; and the honest cobler was in bed with his wife , in a sound sleep , when he knocked at the door . Open the door ...
... soon as he was settled , he mounted on horseback , and went alone to the village . It was ten at night before he got there ; and the honest cobler was in bed with his wife , in a sound sleep , when he knocked at the door . Open the door ...
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... soon distinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the short ecstacy occasioned by the first sight , he immediately reproached himself as be- ing guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he had ...
... soon distinguished and fixed upon her . 2. But recovering from the short ecstacy occasioned by the first sight , he immediately reproached himself as be- ing guilty of rudeness to the rest of the company ; a fault which he had ...
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... soon dislike a coquet , a fool , or a gid- dy woman : But if he falls in love with a woman of mer- it , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and augment his passion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him ...
... soon dislike a coquet , a fool , or a gid- dy woman : But if he falls in love with a woman of mer- it , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and augment his passion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocles convinced him ...
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