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 MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 páginas |
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... king of England , after the battle of Creffy , laid fiege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in fo impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the fiege , or throw fuccors into the city . The ...
... king of England , after the battle of Creffy , laid fiege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in fo impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the fiege , or throw fuccors into the city . The ...
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... king , " are these the principal inhabitants of Calais ! " " They are , " fays Mauny : " they are not only the principal men of Calais : they are the principal men of France , my lord , if virtue has any fhare in the act of enno- bling ...
... king , " are these the principal inhabitants of Calais ! " " They are , " fays Mauny : " they are not only the principal men of Calais : they are the principal men of France , my lord , if virtue has any fhare in the act of enno- bling ...
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... Powhatan . 4. The king was fo proud of having Captain Smith in his power , that he fent him in triumph to all the tributary princes , and ordered that he fhould be fplendidly treated , till 8. If I knew a mifer, who gave up ...
... Powhatan . 4. The king was fo proud of having Captain Smith in his power , that he fent him in triumph to all the tributary princes , and ordered that he fhould be fplendidly treated , till 8. If I knew a mifer, who gave up ...
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... king , and his head placed upon a large stone to receive the ftroke of death ; when Po- cahontas , the youngest and darling daughter of Powhatan , threw herself upon his body , clafped him in her arms , and declared that if the cruel ...
... king , and his head placed upon a large stone to receive the ftroke of death ; when Po- cahontas , the youngest and darling daughter of Powhatan , threw herself upon his body , clafped him in her arms , and declared that if the cruel ...
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... king . 15. It will not perhaps be difficult to decide on this occa- fion , whether it was the favage king who derived honor from finding himfelf placed upon a level with the European prince , or the English monarch , who , by his pride ...
... king . 15. It will not perhaps be difficult to decide on this occa- fion , whether it was the favage king who derived honor from finding himfelf placed upon a level with the European prince , or the English monarch , who , by his pride ...
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Página 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Página 214 - 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, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Página 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Página 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Página 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...