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 17
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! -'Tis slander ! Whose edge is harper than a sword ; whose tongue Out - venoms alf the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! -'Tis slander ! Whose edge is harper than a sword ; whose tongue Out - venoms alf the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world ...
Page 44
... stand . 10. This change of ground occasioned the tree , to which Putnam was tied , to be directly between the fire of the two parties .. Human imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable situation . The balls flew ...
... stand . 10. This change of ground occasioned the tree , to which Putnam was tied , to be directly between the fire of the two parties .. Human imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable situation . The balls flew ...
Page 95
... stands in need of . 15. Form no friendships hastily . Study a character well before you put confidence in the person . Every per- son is entitled to civility , but very few to confidence . The Spanish proverb says , " Tell me whom you ...
... stands in need of . 15. Form no friendships hastily . Study a character well before you put confidence in the person . Every per- son is entitled to civility , but very few to confidence . The Spanish proverb says , " Tell me whom you ...
Page 101
... stands . But why need we anticipate unavoidable evils , and " feel a thousand deaths in fearing one ? ” 5. Why need a woman be everlastingly burying her children , in her imagination , and spend her whole time in a fancied course of ...
... stands . But why need we anticipate unavoidable evils , and " feel a thousand deaths in fearing one ? ” 5. Why need a woman be everlastingly burying her children , in her imagination , and spend her whole time in a fancied course of ...
Page 119
... stands upon a gentle rise , has the appearance of a cottage , constructed like those of the peas- ants , with trunks of trees piled upon each other and thatch- ed with straw . Beside the principal building , occupied by the prince and ...
... stands upon a gentle rise , has the appearance of a cottage , constructed like those of the peas- ants , with trunks of trees piled upon each other and thatch- ed with straw . Beside the principal building , occupied by the prince and ...
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