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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... scene ; but to his companions it recalled the memory of a wife and parent they had lost . The old man's sorrow was sil- ent ; his daughter sobbed and wept . Her father took her hand , kissed it twice , pressed it to his bosom , threw up ...
... scene ; but to his companions it recalled the memory of a wife and parent they had lost . The old man's sorrow was sil- ent ; his daughter sobbed and wept . Her father took her hand , kissed it twice , pressed it to his bosom , threw up ...
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... scenes and curiosities of the country . They would sometimes make little expeditions to contemplate , in different attitudes , those astonishing mountains , the cliffs of which , covered with eternal snows , and some- times shooting ...
... scenes and curiosities of the country . They would sometimes make little expeditions to contemplate , in different attitudes , those astonishing mountains , the cliffs of which , covered with eternal snows , and some- times shooting ...
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... scene ; but he was a good deal shocked , on approaching the spot to find it to be the torch of a person clothed in the dress of an attendant on a funeral , and accompanied by several others who like him , seemed to have been em- ployed ...
... scene ; but he was a good deal shocked , on approaching the spot to find it to be the torch of a person clothed in the dress of an attendant on a funeral , and accompanied by several others who like him , seemed to have been em- ployed ...
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... . The inspiration of the pulpit was past ; the scenes they had last met in , rushed again on his mind ; La Roche threw his arms around his neck , and watered it with his tears . The other was equally affected ; they went [ 38 ]
... . The inspiration of the pulpit was past ; the scenes they had last met in , rushed again on his mind ; La Roche threw his arms around his neck , and watered it with his tears . The other was equally affected ; they went [ 38 ]
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... - nesses of the affecting scene that ensued . 4. The incessant cannonade during the solemnity ; the steady attitude and unaltered voice of the chaplain who officiated , tho frequently covered with dust from the shot [ 39 ]
... - nesses of the affecting scene that ensued . 4. The incessant cannonade during the solemnity ; the steady attitude and unaltered voice of the chaplain who officiated , tho frequently covered with dust from the shot [ 39 ]
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