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 Mind : Being the Third Part of A Grammatical Institute of the English LanguageEvert Duyckinck, bookseller and stationer, 1804 - 236 pages |
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... respect distant nations or ages ; or contain general ideas of morality . In America , it will be useful to furnish schools with additional essays , containing the history , geography , and transactions of the United States . Information ...
... respect distant nations or ages ; or contain general ideas of morality . In America , it will be useful to furnish schools with additional essays , containing the history , geography , and transactions of the United States . Information ...
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... respect to the pauses , * and teach them to pay the same attention to these characters as they do to the words . They should be cautioned likewise against pausing in the midst of a member of a sentence , where the sense re- quires the ...
... respect to the pauses , * and teach them to pay the same attention to these characters as they do to the words . They should be cautioned likewise against pausing in the midst of a member of a sentence , where the sense re- quires the ...
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... respects the last syllable only of a sentence ; which syllable is actually pronounced with a lower tone of voice ; but when words of several syllables close a period , all the sylla bles but the last are pronounced in the same key as ...
... respects the last syllable only of a sentence ; which syllable is actually pronounced with a lower tone of voice ; but when words of several syllables close a period , all the sylla bles but the last are pronounced in the same key as ...
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... respect , and to please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance , and a low familiarity . The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds , and one fault of a ...
... respect , and to please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance , and a low familiarity . The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds , and one fault of a ...
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... respect to the men . Sophia therefore never talks of women , but to express the good she knows of them : of others she says nothing . 8. Without much knowledge of the world , she is attentive , obliging , and graceful in all she does ...
... respect to the men . Sophia therefore never talks of women , but to express the good she knows of them : of others she says nothing . 8. Without much knowledge of the world , she is attentive , obliging , and graceful in all she does ...
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Page 183 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 181 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st...
Page 179 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 10 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 179 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Page 10 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Page 10 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 198 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Page 195 - The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Page 182 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...