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 MindJoshua Cushing, 1805 - 226 páginas |
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... prefent edition comprehends a great variety of fen- timent , morality , hiftory , elocution , anecdote and de- fcription ; and , it is believed , will be found to contain as much interefting matter , as any compilation of the size and ...
... prefent edition comprehends a great variety of fen- timent , morality , hiftory , elocution , anecdote and de- fcription ; and , it is believed , will be found to contain as much interefting matter , as any compilation of the size and ...
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... prefent . It is no part of wifdom to be miferable to - day , because we may happen to be more sq to - morrow . To mourn without meafure , is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . Some would be thought to do great things , who ...
... prefent . It is no part of wifdom to be miferable to - day , because we may happen to be more sq to - morrow . To mourn without meafure , is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . Some would be thought to do great things , who ...
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... prefent , but are providing to live another time . Party is the madnefs of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine fense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superftition is ...
... prefent , but are providing to live another time . Party is the madnefs of many , for the gain of a few . To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine fense , is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor . Superftition is ...
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... prefent , to remove the only obstacle to their marriage , but that he now doubted whether he could law- fully retain it . The vicar eyed the lovers with atten- tion . 6. He admired their honefty , which appeared even to furpass their ...
... prefent , to remove the only obstacle to their marriage , but that he now doubted whether he could law- fully retain it . The vicar eyed the lovers with atten- tion . 6. He admired their honefty , which appeared even to furpass their ...
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... prefent . 5. The growing dufkinefs of the evening added to the fcenery , and the whole marked a character of that juncture , that would make one of the finest fubjects for the pencil of a mafter that the field ever exhibited . 6. To the ...
... prefent . 5. The growing dufkinefs of the evening added to the fcenery , and the whole marked a character of that juncture , that would make one of the finest fubjects for the pencil of a mafter that the field ever exhibited . 6. To the ...
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