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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... thought susceptible of improve- ment ; the compiler has therefore made some alterations , omitting some pieces which were believed to be less ad- apted to interest young minds , and substituting others , which cannot fail to be as ...
... thought susceptible of improve- ment ; the compiler has therefore made some alterations , omitting some pieces which were believed to be less ad- apted to interest young minds , and substituting others , which cannot fail to be as ...
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... thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing , he never can be wise but ...
... thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he play- ed upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by another's learn- ing , he never can be wise but ...
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... thought he could not lay on posterity a stronger obligation to reverence his memory , than by leaving them a salutary caution against this outrageous passion . 1 The universal axiom , in which all complasance is inclu- ded , and from ...
... thought he could not lay on posterity a stronger obligation to reverence his memory , than by leaving them a salutary caution against this outrageous passion . 1 The universal axiom , in which all complasance is inclu- ded , and from ...
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... thought struck Perrin : " This money is not ours - It belongs to some stranger and perhaps this moment he is lamenting the loss of it . Let us go to the vicar for advice - he has al- ways been kind to me . " Perrin put the bag into the ...
... thought struck Perrin : " This money is not ours - It belongs to some stranger and perhaps this moment he is lamenting the loss of it . Let us go to the vicar for advice - he has al- ways been kind to me . " Perrin put the bag into the ...
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... thought of receiving it from God , adds the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation , in every good thing which I possess ; and when calamities overtake me , and I have had my share , it confers a dignity on my af- fliction , and so ...
... thought of receiving it from God , adds the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation , in every good thing which I possess ; and when calamities overtake me , and I have had my share , it confers a dignity on my af- fliction , and so ...
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