Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix ...Peter B. Gleason, 1812 - 382 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... , we shall not wonder that they are not always thought to be the most suitable employment for youth at school : nor , when we reflect on the long inter- ruption to the common school exercises , which the prepa 10 ELEMENTS.
... , we shall not wonder that they are not always thought to be the most suitable employment for youth at school : nor , when we reflect on the long inter- ruption to the common school exercises , which the prepa 10 ELEMENTS.
Pagina 43
... thoughts and sentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : For , besides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always distinguish- es reading from speaking , the fixed posture , and the bend- ing of the head ...
... thoughts and sentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : For , besides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always distinguish- es reading from speaking , the fixed posture , and the bend- ing of the head ...
Pagina 46
... thought to the aged , which it was impossible to inspire while they were young . Every man however little makes a figure in his own eyes . Self - partiality hides from us those very faults in our- selves , which we see and blame in ...
... thought to the aged , which it was impossible to inspire while they were young . Every man however little makes a figure in his own eyes . Self - partiality hides from us those very faults in our- selves , which we see and blame in ...
Pagina 50
... thought just struck into my mind , which , I am confident , will extricate us out of our difficulty . Do said he to the Goat , only rear your self up upon your hinder - legs , and rest your fore feet against the side of the well . In ...
... thought just struck into my mind , which , I am confident , will extricate us out of our difficulty . Do said he to the Goat , only rear your self up upon your hinder - legs , and rest your fore feet against the side of the well . In ...
Pagina 59
... thought were the most proper to show her complexion to advantage . She cast her eyes upon herself , then turned them on those that were present , to see how they liked her ; and often looked on the figure she made in her own shadow ...
... thought were the most proper to show her complexion to advantage . She cast her eyes upon herself , then turned them on those that were present , to see how they liked her ; and often looked on the figure she made in her own shadow ...
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