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 Mind : Being the Third Part of A Grammatical Institute of the English Language |
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Page 44
In one of inese siluations , a tent in which the Major and his lady were asleep ,
suddenly took fire . An orderly serjeant of the grenadiers , with great hazard of
sufiocation , dragoed out the first person he caught hold of . It proved to be the
Major ...
In one of inese siluations , a tent in which the Major and his lady were asleep ,
suddenly took fire . An orderly serjeant of the grenadiers , with great hazard of
sufiocation , dragoed out the first person he caught hold of . It proved to be the
Major ...
Page 48
This change of ground occasioned the tree , to wuich 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 incessantly from either side ...
This change of ground occasioned the tree , to wuich 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 incessantly from either side ...
Page 52
They begin with a subterranean rumbling noise , with a roaring and cracking in
the place from whence the fire is to burst forth . Fiery meteor ' s also precede the
eruption of fire , and sometimes shocks of earthquakes . 2 . The drying up of small
...
They begin with a subterranean rumbling noise , with a roaring and cracking in
the place from whence the fire is to burst forth . Fiery meteor ' s also precede the
eruption of fire , and sometimes shocks of earthquakes . 2 . The drying up of small
...
Page 53
and fire balls from the smoke , and stones and ashes are thrown to a vast
distance . In 1755 , a stone of 290 pounds weight was thrown 24 miles . 3 . The
nost tremenduous eruption ever know was in 1783 . Its first sign was perceived
on the ...
and fire balls from the smoke , and stones and ashes are thrown to a vast
distance . In 1755 , a stone of 290 pounds weight was thrown 24 miles . 3 . The
nost tremenduous eruption ever know was in 1783 . Its first sign was perceived
on the ...
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south , and after filling the channel of the Skapta for six miles , it burst upon a
wide plain , carrying haming wood on its surface , and overwhelming the earth
with torrents of liquid fire . 9 . It continued thus to spread from June 12 to August
13 ...
south , and after filling the channel of the Skapta for six miles , it burst upon a
wide plain , carrying haming wood on its surface , and overwhelming the earth
with torrents of liquid fire . 9 . It continued thus to spread from June 12 to August
13 ...
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| Title | 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 Mind : Being the Third Part of A Grammatical Institute of the English ... |
| Author | Noah Webster |
| Publisher | Evert Duyckinck, 1804 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 May 2007 |
| Length | 236 pages |
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