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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... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! 12 . ' Tis Slander ! Whose edge is sharper than a sword ; whose tongue Out - venoms all the worms of Nile ? whose breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! 12 . ' Tis Slander ! Whose edge is sharper than a sword ; whose tongue Out - venoms all the worms of Nile ? whose breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the ...
Page 50
... stand . 10. This change of ground occasioned the tree , to which Putnam was tied , to be directly between the fire of the two parties . Human imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable situation . The balls flew ...
... stand . 10. This change of ground occasioned the tree , to which Putnam was tied , to be directly between the fire of the two parties . Human imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable situation . The balls flew ...
Page 105
... stands . But why need we anticipate una- voidable evils , and " feel a thousand deaths in fearing one ? " says , 5. Why need a woman be everlastingly burying her chil- dren in her imagination , and spend her whole time in a fan- cied ...
... stands . But why need we anticipate una- voidable evils , and " feel a thousand deaths in fearing one ? " says , 5. Why need a woman be everlastingly burying her chil- dren in her imagination , and spend her whole time in a fan- cied ...
Page 122
... stands upon a gentle rise , has the ap- pearance of a cottage , constructed like those of the peasants , with trunks of trees piled on each other , and thatched with straw . Besides the principal building , occupied by the prince and ...
... stands upon a gentle rise , has the ap- pearance of a cottage , constructed like those of the peasants , with trunks of trees piled on each other , and thatched with straw . Besides the principal building , occupied by the prince and ...
Page 130
... stand . 3. It may appear incredible , that a dwelling house may be thus bought , removed , raised and inhabited , within the space of a week ; but we shall conceive it practicable , by considering that these ready made houses are , in ...
... stand . 3. It may appear incredible , that a dwelling house may be thus bought , removed , raised and inhabited , within the space of a week ; but we shall conceive it practicable , by considering that these ready made houses are , in ...
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