The Fifth, Or, Elocutionary Reader, in which the Principles of Elocution are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules : Designed for the Use of Schools and AcademiesSanborn, Carter & Bazin, 1855 - 480 páginas |
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... thought unnec- essary to add another to the list . The reasons , however , the author would assign in justification of himself , and as an apology to the public for presenting this work , are as follows : 1st . In most of the ...
... thought unnec- essary to add another to the list . The reasons , however , the author would assign in justification of himself , and as an apology to the public for presenting this work , are as follows : 1st . In most of the ...
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... thought it advisable also to give a brief explanation of the change in the use of words , from a literal to a figurative sense , illustrating the same by a few examples , and thus showing how much our language abounds in a figurative ...
... thought it advisable also to give a brief explanation of the change in the use of words , from a literal to a figurative sense , illustrating the same by a few examples , and thus showing how much our language abounds in a figurative ...
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... thought . We may confidently assert , that mental power is generally obtained by hard thinking ; and he alone possesses it , who has been accustomed to bring the power of his understanding to bear with such intensity of heat upon the ...
... thought . We may confidently assert , that mental power is generally obtained by hard thinking ; and he alone possesses it , who has been accustomed to bring the power of his understanding to bear with such intensity of heat upon the ...
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... thought , penetrating into the nature of things , and investigating their relations , reducing chaos to order , and bringing harmony out of confusion . CHAPTER III . SENTENCES . A SENTENCE , says Dr. Webster , is a number of words ...
... thought , penetrating into the nature of things , and investigating their relations , reducing chaos to order , and bringing harmony out of confusion . CHAPTER III . SENTENCES . A SENTENCE , says Dr. Webster , is a number of words ...
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... thoughts and feelings ? 8. Do you rejoice in truth and resolve to maintain it ? QUESTIONS . Give examples of a single condition . Of successive conditions . What is an interrogative sentence ? What is the note ? Give examples of direct ...
... thoughts and feelings ? 8. Do you rejoice in truth and resolve to maintain it ? QUESTIONS . Give examples of a single condition . Of successive conditions . What is an interrogative sentence ? What is the note ? Give examples of direct ...
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Página 192 - 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.
Página 334 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 234 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 330 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Página 337 - These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Página 439 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Página 141 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Página 335 - The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery ; and the tide of water that thou seest, is part of the great tide of eternity.
Página 142 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Página 93 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.