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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... feel what he speaks ; for the perfection of reading and speaking is to pronounce the words as if the sentiments were our own . If a person is rehearsing the words of an angry man , he should assume the same furious looks ; his eyes ...
... feel what he speaks ; for the perfection of reading and speaking is to pronounce the words as if the sentiments were our own . If a person is rehearsing the words of an angry man , he should assume the same furious looks ; his eyes ...
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... feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle throws his beam ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world . -Love all , trust a few , Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy , Rather in power than in use ...
... feels a pang as great , As when a giant dies . How far the little candle throws his beam ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world . -Love all , trust a few , Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy , Rather in power than in use ...
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... feel or understand . 3. The next morning , the banker , leaving his parents a purse of three hundred ducats , returned to Madrid ; but was surprised to see Jacobo at his house a few days after . My father , said he , what brings you ...
... feel or understand . 3. The next morning , the banker , leaving his parents a purse of three hundred ducats , returned to Madrid ; but was surprised to see Jacobo at his house a few days after . My father , said he , what brings you ...
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... feel that I cannot live with- out you ; Can you without violence to your inclinations , consent to make me happy ? I may love you without of- fense ; is a tribute due to your merit : But may I flatter myself with the hopes of some small ...
... feel that I cannot live with- out you ; Can you without violence to your inclinations , consent to make me happy ? I may love you without of- fense ; is a tribute due to your merit : But may I flatter myself with the hopes of some small ...
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... feeling ; but the mildness of his manners has been allowed by all ; and it is certain that if he was not ea- sily melted into compassion , it was , at least , not difficult to awaken his benevolence . 4. One morning , while he sat ...
... feeling ; but the mildness of his manners has been allowed by all ; and it is certain that if he was not ea- sily melted into compassion , it was , at least , not difficult to awaken his benevolence . 4. One morning , while he sat ...
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