Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions and Emotions of the Mind |
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... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrat . ed on the ground . The arms are spread in a suppliant posture , and the voice of deprecation is uttered with sighs , groans , timi- dity ...
... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrat . ed on the ground . The arms are spread in a suppliant posture , and the voice of deprecation is uttered with sighs , groans , timi- dity ...
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... earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of a hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands are clasped together and often lifted , and the head often shaken with foolish ...
... earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of a hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands are clasped together and often lifted , and the head often shaken with foolish ...
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... earth is covered with green , rather than any other colour , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason seve- ral painters have a ...
... earth is covered with green , rather than any other colour , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason seve- ral painters have a ...
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... earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ? Doing says she ; really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect , After about half an hour's pause she told him that ...
... earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ? Doing says she ; really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect , After about half an hour's pause she told him that ...
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... earth breathes as fragrant upon the one as the other ; and that they have an equal share in all the beauties and real benefits of nature . XIX . House of Mourning . LET us go into the house of mourning , made so by such af . flictions ...
... earth breathes as fragrant upon the one as the other ; and that they have an equal share in all the beauties and real benefits of nature . XIX . House of Mourning . LET us go into the house of mourning , made so by such af . flictions ...
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