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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Page 94
... secure that unmingled felicity in life , which is reserved for genuine love , a passion in- spired by sensibility , and improved by a perpetual inter- course of kind offices . 1 . " N RULES FOR BEHAVIOR . TEVER let your mind be absent ...
... secure that unmingled felicity in life , which is reserved for genuine love , a passion in- spired by sensibility , and improved by a perpetual inter- course of kind offices . 1 . " N RULES FOR BEHAVIOR . TEVER let your mind be absent ...
Page 100
... secure success . It may , indeed , be difficult to restrain the occa- sional sallies of temper ; but where there is , in the more dispassionate moments , a settled desire to preserve domes- tic union , the transient violence of passion ...
... secure success . It may , indeed , be difficult to restrain the occa- sional sallies of temper ; but where there is , in the more dispassionate moments , a settled desire to preserve domes- tic union , the transient violence of passion ...
Page 102
... secure as if their children were immortal . Now and then a neighbor drops off with the consumption , or an apoplexy ; but that makes no im- pression , as all their children are plump and hearty . 8. If there are no cancers , dysenteries ...
... secure as if their children were immortal . Now and then a neighbor drops off with the consumption , or an apoplexy ; but that makes no im- pression , as all their children are plump and hearty . 8. If there are no cancers , dysenteries ...
Page 122
... secure on their base , mocking the force of the raging current . Such are the objects which add beauty and grandeur to this stupendous scene . LAKE OF CONSTANCE . HE Lake called Constance , is one of the bounda- 1.THE ries between ...
... secure on their base , mocking the force of the raging current . Such are the objects which add beauty and grandeur to this stupendous scene . LAKE OF CONSTANCE . HE Lake called Constance , is one of the bounda- 1.THE ries between ...
Page 128
... secure the ends of this immense band , it was fastened to one end of a huge rock in its natural state- At the other end , the Peruvians were under the necessity of hewing a column out of a solid rock . These rocks were perforated , and ...
... secure the ends of this immense band , it was fastened to one end of a huge rock in its natural state- At the other end , the Peruvians were under the necessity of hewing a column out of a solid rock . These rocks were perforated , and ...
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