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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... feet , lifting up the eyes to heaven , & c . Melancholy is gloomy and motionless , the lower jaw falls , the eyes are cast down and half shut , words few , and interrupted with sighs . Fear opens the eyes and mouth , shortens the nose ...
... feet , lifting up the eyes to heaven , & c . Melancholy is gloomy and motionless , the lower jaw falls , the eyes are cast down and half shut , words few , and interrupted with sighs . Fear opens the eyes and mouth , shortens the nose ...
Page 7
... feet stamping , the right hand thrown out , threatening with a clenched fist , and the whole frame agitated . * Peevishness is expressed in nearly the same manner , but with more moderation ; the eyes asquint upon the ob- ject of ...
... feet stamping , the right hand thrown out , threatening with a clenched fist , and the whole frame agitated . * Peevishness is expressed in nearly the same manner , but with more moderation ; the eyes asquint upon the ob- ject of ...
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... feet were so much scratched that the blood dropped fast from them . 17. Exhausted with bearing a burden above his strength , and frantic with torments exquisite beyond endurance ; he entreated the Irish interpreter to implore as the ...
... feet were so much scratched that the blood dropped fast from them . 17. Exhausted with bearing a burden above his strength , and frantic with torments exquisite beyond endurance ; he entreated the Irish interpreter to implore as the ...
Page 47
... feet and tied them to one of his wrists ; then directing him to lie down on his back upon the bare ground , he stretched one arm to its full length , and bound it fast to a young tree ; the ather arm was extended and bound in the same ...
... feet and tied them to one of his wrists ; then directing him to lie down on his back upon the bare ground , he stretched one arm to its full length , and bound it fast to a young tree ; the ather arm was extended and bound in the same ...
Page 51
... feet in depth . It ran in every direction Where it could find a vent , and destroyed a number of vil ges . In one place it came to a cataract of the river of 14 fath- oms high , where it fell with a tremendous noise and ter- rible ...
... feet in depth . It ran in every direction Where it could find a vent , and destroyed a number of vil ges . In one place it came to a cataract of the river of 14 fath- oms high , where it fell with a tremendous noise and ter- rible ...
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