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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Page 37
... scene ; but to his companions it recalled the memory of a wife and a parent they had lost . The old man's sorrow was silent ; his daughter sobbed and wept . Her father took her hand , kissed it twice , pressed it to his bosom , threw up ...
... scene ; but to his companions it recalled the memory of a wife and a parent they had lost . The old man's sorrow was silent ; his daughter sobbed and wept . Her father took her hand , kissed it twice , pressed it to his bosom , threw up ...
Page 40
... scenes and curiosities of the country . They would sometimes make little expeditions to contemplate , in different attitudes , those astonishing mountains , the cliffs of which , covered with eternal snows , and sometimes shoot- ing ...
... scenes and curiosities of the country . They would sometimes make little expeditions to contemplate , in different attitudes , those astonishing mountains , the cliffs of which , covered with eternal snows , and sometimes shoot- ing ...
Page 41
... scene ; but he was a good deal shocked , on approaching the spot , to find it to be the torch of a person clothed in the dress of an attendant on a funeral , and accompanied by several others D.2 STORY OF LA ROCHE . 41 want of ...
... scene ; but he was a good deal shocked , on approaching the spot , to find it to be the torch of a person clothed in the dress of an attendant on a funeral , and accompanied by several others D.2 STORY OF LA ROCHE . 41 want of ...
Page 44
... scenes they had last met in , rushed again on his mind ; La Roche threw his arms round his neck , and watered it with his tears . The other was equally affected ; they went together in silence into the parlour , where the evening ...
... scenes they had last met in , rushed again on his mind ; La Roche threw his arms round his neck , and watered it with his tears . The other was equally affected ; they went together in silence into the parlour , where the evening ...
Page 45
... scene that ensued . 4. The incessant cannonade during the solemnity ; the steady attitude and unaltered voice of the chaplain who of ficiated ; though frequently covered with dust from the shot which the American artillery threw around ...
... scene that ensued . 4. The incessant cannonade during the solemnity ; the steady attitude and unaltered voice of the chaplain who of ficiated ; though frequently covered with dust from the shot which the American artillery threw around ...
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