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 of horror , infinitely greater than had ever met his eyes before , was now preparing . It was determined to roast him alive . For this purpose they led him into a dark forest , stripped him naked , bound him to a tree , and piled ...
... scene of horror , infinitely greater than had ever met his eyes before , was now preparing . It was determined to roast him alive . For this purpose they led him into a dark forest , stripped him naked , bound him to a tree , and piled ...
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... scene lasted several days , and the whole coun- try was laid waste . The inhabitants fled to the utmost parts of the island to escape the terrible conflagration . 7. On the first eruption of fire , the river Skapta was con- siderably ...
... scene lasted several days , and the whole coun- try was laid waste . The inhabitants fled to the utmost parts of the island to escape the terrible conflagration . 7. On the first eruption of fire , the river Skapta was con- siderably ...
Page 56
... scene ! they crouded with their wives and children about St. Pierre and his fellow prisoners . They embraced , they clung around , they fell prostrate before them . They groaned ; they wept aloud ; and the joint clamor of their mourning ...
... scene ! they crouded with their wives and children about St. Pierre and his fellow prisoners . They embraced , they clung around , they fell prostrate before them . They groaned ; they wept aloud ; and the joint clamor of their mourning ...
Page 57
... scenes of peace and war within that time ; being personally acquainted with ma- ny of you , both in your public and private characters ; and having an earnest desire to promote your true interest , P trust you will not think me ...
... scenes of peace and war within that time ; being personally acquainted with ma- ny of you , both in your public and private characters ; and having an earnest desire to promote your true interest , P trust you will not think me ...
Page 97
... scene of duiness and insipidity . 7. Happy would it be if the evil extended no farther.- But the transition from the negative state of not being plea- sed , to positive ill - humor , is but too easy . Fretfulness and peevishness arise ...
... scene of duiness and insipidity . 7. Happy would it be if the evil extended no farther.- But the transition from the negative state of not being plea- sed , to positive ill - humor , is but too easy . Fretfulness and peevishness arise ...
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Page 207 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Page 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory...
Page 79 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain...
Page 190 - WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Page 153 - Italy, bind, scourge, torture with fire and red hot plates of iron, and at last put to the infamous death of the cross, a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, nor the tears of pitying spectators, nor the majesty of the Roman commonwealth, nor the...
Page 169 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Page 208 - Long in his highness' favor, and do justice For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his bones, When he has run his course, and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on 'em !
Page 217 - When that rash humor, which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.