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... appeal to worldly interest often excites aversion in the minds of young men , while the more acute among them perceive the falsity of the assertion . So far as mere success in life is concerned , impartial observa- tion will prove that ...
... appeal to worldly interest often excites aversion in the minds of young men , while the more acute among them perceive the falsity of the assertion . So far as mere success in life is concerned , impartial observa- tion will prove that ...
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... appeals to the minds of those addressed , while the arm raised and brought forward without relaxing the elbow , expresses freedom of impulse and a confident appeal to sympathy . utter . The fundamental principle of every gesture is ...
... appeals to the minds of those addressed , while the arm raised and brought forward without relaxing the elbow , expresses freedom of impulse and a confident appeal to sympathy . utter . The fundamental principle of every gesture is ...
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... appeal to the assent and sympathy of those we address ; and thirdly , of an intention to enforce occasionally the truth or importance of what we assert . But five rules are necessary for establishing good habits in the common gesture of ...
... appeal to the assent and sympathy of those we address ; and thirdly , of an intention to enforce occasionally the truth or importance of what we assert . But five rules are necessary for establishing good habits in the common gesture of ...
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... appeal . It should be brought at least forty five degrees forward . 4. Let all the muscles of the arm be in a state of ten- sion , corresponding to a spirited and animated state of mind . Graceful , to say nothing of forcible gestures ...
... appeal . It should be brought at least forty five degrees forward . 4. Let all the muscles of the arm be in a state of ten- sion , corresponding to a spirited and animated state of mind . Graceful , to say nothing of forcible gestures ...
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... appeal . So likewise in a succession of gestures , the arm should not drop when one has been given , and then be raised again for the next . After making a stroke , the arm should remain in the position of appeal , or in that in which ...
... appeal . So likewise in a succession of gestures , the arm should not drop when one has been given , and then be raised again for the next . After making a stroke , the arm should remain in the position of appeal , or in that in which ...
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Page 275 - ... Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 142 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 323 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Page 317 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
Page 394 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
Page 301 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 322 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful Form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity...
Page 71 - On, on, you noblest English, Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, Fathers that like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought, And sheathed their swords for lack of argument! Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war!
Page 372 - Advance, then, ye future generations! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers.
Page 156 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.