An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Mind and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which is Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind |
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... Fear opens the eyes and mouth , shortens the nose , draws down the eye - brows , gives the countenance an air of wild- ness ; the face becomes pale , the elbows are drawn back parallel with the sides , one foot is drawn back , the heart ...
... Fear opens the eyes and mouth , shortens the nose , draws down the eye - brows , gives the countenance an air of wild- ness ; the face becomes pale , the elbows are drawn back parallel with the sides , one foot is drawn back , the heart ...
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... fear , who dares to die . 12. There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by B securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being. SELECT SENTENCES. ...
... fear , who dares to die . 12. There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by B securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being. SELECT SENTENCES. ...
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... fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth . 3. A rich man beginning to fall , is held up by his friends ; but a poor man , being down , is thrust away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen , he hath ...
... fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth . 3. A rich man beginning to fall , is held up by his friends ; but a poor man , being down , is thrust away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen , he hath ...
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... fears ; and to all these the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate reme- dy . " Think , ( says Epictetus ) frequently on poverty , ba- nishment and death , and thou wilt never indulge violent desires , or give up thy ...
... fears ; and to all these the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate reme- dy . " Think , ( says Epictetus ) frequently on poverty , ba- nishment and death , and thou wilt never indulge violent desires , or give up thy ...
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... fear of imputed ostentation may with- hold them from being foremost in exhibiting their merits . 47. Indeed the station to which the captivity of count Vienne , has unhappily raised me , imports a right to be the first in giving my life ...
... fear of imputed ostentation may with- hold them from being foremost in exhibiting their merits . 47. Indeed the station to which the captivity of count Vienne , has unhappily raised me , imports a right to be the first in giving my life ...
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