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 |
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... characters we use as stops are extremely arbitra- ry , and do not always mark a suspension of the voice . On the contrary , they are often employed to separate the sey- eral mumbers of a period , and shew the grammatical con- struction ...
... characters we use as stops are extremely arbitra- ry , and do not always mark a suspension of the voice . On the contrary , they are often employed to separate the sey- eral mumbers of a period , and shew the grammatical con- struction ...
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... character of the person who commends you , is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem . The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous , the rest of the world , him who is most wealthy . The temperate man's ...
... character of the person who commends you , is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem . The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous , the rest of the world , him who is most wealthy . The temperate man's ...
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... character . A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood . Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we hould as much avoid deceit , or sinister meaning in ...
... character . A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood . Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we hould as much avoid deceit , or sinister meaning in ...
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... character , dis- covers at the same time a bad disposition and a bad taste . How is it possible to expect that ... characters have been most injured by slanderers ; as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have ...
... character , dis- covers at the same time a bad disposition and a bad taste . How is it possible to expect that ... characters have been most injured by slanderers ; as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit , which the birds have ...
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... CHARACTER OF A YOUNG LADY . OPHIA is not a beauty , but in her presence , beau- beau Sop in her she scarcely appears pretty ; but the more she is beheld , the more agreeable she appears . She gains when others lose , and what she gains ...
... CHARACTER OF A YOUNG LADY . OPHIA is not a beauty , but in her presence , beau- beau Sop in her she scarcely appears pretty ; but the more she is beheld , the more agreeable she appears . She gains when others lose , and what she gains ...
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