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... person of discernment and observation . * Says Mr. Sheridan , Where truth is concerned , the very faults of a speaker , which seem natural , are more agreeable to the hearer , than such beauties , as are appar- ently borrowed ; in the ...
... person of discernment and observation . * Says Mr. Sheridan , Where truth is concerned , the very faults of a speaker , which seem natural , are more agreeable to the hearer , than such beauties , as are appar- ently borrowed ; in the ...
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... persons be reclaimed from unnatural , affected , and mechanical habits of reading , to supply our schools for ten success- ive years with suitable instructers , they would doubtless put things in so different a posture , as would ...
... persons be reclaimed from unnatural , affected , and mechanical habits of reading , to supply our schools for ten success- ive years with suitable instructers , they would doubtless put things in so different a posture , as would ...
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... persons in very unequal proportions ; but there is hardly any natural talent , more susceptible of improvement , or depravation , than the voice . By different modes of treatment , one becomes better , and another worse ; though , with ...
... persons in very unequal proportions ; but there is hardly any natural talent , more susceptible of improvement , or depravation , than the voice . By different modes of treatment , one becomes better , and another worse ; though , with ...
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... person of taste in eloquence or vocal music , and has been demonstrated by innumer- able examples ; of which none is more remark- able , than that of Demosthenes ; who , with a voice originally feeble and faulty , became the most ...
... person of taste in eloquence or vocal music , and has been demonstrated by innumer- able examples ; of which none is more remark- able , than that of Demosthenes ; who , with a voice originally feeble and faulty , became the most ...
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... person may in- crease the natural gravity of his voice ; the op- posite effect is produced by confining himself to a high part . In this way he comes at length to strike easily and powerfully notes , which at first 16 GENERAL FORMATION.
... person may in- crease the natural gravity of his voice ; the op- posite effect is produced by confining himself to a high part . In this way he comes at length to strike easily and powerfully notes , which at first 16 GENERAL FORMATION.
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Page 71 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 61 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 97 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Page 114 - What went ye out into the. wilderness to see? a reed shaken with the wind ? But what went ye out for to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses.
Page 53 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
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Page 117 - How beauteous are their feet Who stand on Zion's hill! Who bring salvation on their tongues, And words of peace reveal. 2 How charming is their voice! How sweet the tidings are ! — "Zion, behold thy Saviour King! He reigns and triumphs here.
Page 102 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 116 - Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'T is that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head ! And as the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresses -steeped.
Page 101 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield : but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.