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... likewise is in a musing state . From both these causes , reading is at first naturally characterized by what is called a tone . The tones with which children read are universal , and are equally exhibited by uneducated men . Among the ...
... likewise is in a musing state . From both these causes , reading is at first naturally characterized by what is called a tone . The tones with which children read are universal , and are equally exhibited by uneducated men . Among the ...
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... attained after a long continuance of repeated ef- forts , but when in fact mastered , is often gained sud- denly and at once . Like these acts likewise , that of speaking when once learned , is never forgotten or lost 2 * PREFACE . 13.
... attained after a long continuance of repeated ef- forts , but when in fact mastered , is often gained sud- denly and at once . Like these acts likewise , that of speaking when once learned , is never forgotten or lost 2 * PREFACE . 13.
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... likewise , an effort was made to assist the younger students in acquiring a fondness for the beauties of English literature . For this pur- pose , use was made of the means which are the province strictly of elocution . The peculiar ...
... likewise , an effort was made to assist the younger students in acquiring a fondness for the beauties of English literature . For this pur- pose , use was made of the means which are the province strictly of elocution . The peculiar ...
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... likewise is an important element among the requisites for success . Superior ability in delivery can only result from a gradual development of capabilities and the formation of hab- its . Young men who are preparing to be public ...
... likewise is an important element among the requisites for success . Superior ability in delivery can only result from a gradual development of capabilities and the formation of hab- its . Young men who are preparing to be public ...
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... likewise intended that such modes of speak- ing shall each exemplify one of the various natural styles of de- livery . Some natural style of speaking can always be found , the practice of which will cure the faults that are liable to at ...
... likewise intended that such modes of speak- ing shall each exemplify one of the various natural styles of de- livery . Some natural style of speaking can always be found , the practice of which will cure the faults that are liable to at ...
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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.