 It is very difficult to lay down rules for the acquirement of such a taste as that I am here speaking of. The faculty must in some degree be born with us; and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of...  The Port Folio - Page 1551810Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 410 pages
...sovereign masters both by sea and land; while this state had not one ship — no, NOT — 6NE — WALL." "One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age,...compiler of history, would be delighted with little more — in that divine author — than the bare matters of fdct."* RULE. Pronounce emphatic words with... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 pages
...sovereign masters both by sea and land ; while this state had not one ship — no, NOT — 6NE — WALL." "One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age,...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining JDneas's voyage by the map ; gs I question not but many a modern compiler of history, would be delighted... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...sovereign masters both by sea and land ; while this state had not one ship — no, NOT — ONE — WALL." "One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age,...compiler of history, would be delighted with little mure — in that divine author — than the bare matters of fdct."* RULE. Pronounce emphatic words... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...and it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining vEneas his voyage by the map; as I question not but many a modern compiler of history would be delighted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfeetion, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining ./Eneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a modern compiler of history, would be delighted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining ./Eneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a modern compiler of history, would be delighted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, arc wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining JEneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a modern compiler of history, would bo delighted... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...sovereign masters both by sea and land; while this state had not one ship — no, NOT — ONE — WALL." " One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age,...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining jEneas's voyage by the map; as I question not but many a modern compiler of history, would be delighted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...it very often happens, that those who have other qualities in perfection, are wholly void of this. One of the most eminent mathematicians of the age...pleasure he took in reading Virgil, was in examining JBneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a modern compiler of history, would be delighted... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 pages
...delights of a much inferior and more unprofitable nature. 2. One of the most eminent mathematicians of tne age, has assured me, that the greatest pleasure he...of history, would be delighted with little' more' — in that divine'' author' — than the bare matters of fact. 3. Since I have mentioned this unaccountable... | |
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