Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal PhilosophyJ.P. Morton & Company, 1845 - 368 pagini |
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Pagina 49
... Honor was the virtue of the pagan ; but christianity - teaches a more enlarged and nobler code ; calling into activity - all the best feelings of our nature , -illuminat- ing our path , through this world , with deeds of mercy and ...
... Honor was the virtue of the pagan ; but christianity - teaches a more enlarged and nobler code ; calling into activity - all the best feelings of our nature , -illuminat- ing our path , through this world , with deeds of mercy and ...
Pagina 61
... was not born - to shame ; Upon his brow - shame - is ashamed to sit ; For ' tis a throne , where honor - may be crowned Sole monarch - of the universal earth . 4. We may Proverbs . 1. Self - exaltation - PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . 61.
... was not born - to shame ; Upon his brow - shame - is ashamed to sit ; For ' tis a throne , where honor - may be crowned Sole monarch - of the universal earth . 4. We may Proverbs . 1. Self - exaltation - PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . 61.
Pagina 62
... Honor comes , a pilgrim gray , To bless the turf , that wraps their clay ; And Freedom - shall a while repair To dwell , a weeping hermit , there . Winter Evenings . This seems pro- vided , as if expressly for the purpose of furnishing ...
... Honor comes , a pilgrim gray , To bless the turf , that wraps their clay ; And Freedom - shall a while repair To dwell , a weeping hermit , there . Winter Evenings . This seems pro- vided , as if expressly for the purpose of furnishing ...
Pagina 65
... honor to converse on astro- are subjects that you have industriously in- nomy , or the mathematics ; because , these vestigated , and which you well understand : but religion - is a subject on which I hear you with great pain ; for this ...
... honor to converse on astro- are subjects that you have industriously in- nomy , or the mathematics ; because , these vestigated , and which you well understand : but religion - is a subject on which I hear you with great pain ; for this ...
Pagina 68
... Honor . A stu- dent - of a certain college , gave his fellow student the lie ; and a challenge followed . The mathematical tutor - heard of the diffi- 192. Uses of Spelling . The object of spel - culty , and sent for the young man that ...
... Honor . A stu- dent - of a certain college , gave his fellow student the lie ; and a challenge followed . The mathematical tutor - heard of the diffi- 192. Uses of Spelling . The object of spel - culty , and sent for the young man that ...
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accent action affection Anecdote arms Aunt Betty beauty better black crow bless body breath Cæsar called Catharine cause character Cicero consonant dark dear death delight Demosthenes diphthongal divine earth earth-a elocution eternal evil eyes Fairplay fear feel fire flowers fool gentleman give glory hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honor hope human knowledge labor language larynx liberty light live look Lord madam Manlius means ment mind Miss Carlton nature never o'er object orator passions person phrenology pleasure prangly principles Proverbs replied sense sing smile soul sound speak spirit stop thief sweet tears tell tempest tence thee thing thou thought tion tongue triphthongal true truth Twas Varieties virtue vocal voice vowel Weatherbox wise words youth
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Pagina 216 - In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we' also, in our day and generation,, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Pagina 216 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Pagina 218 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ?' — Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink.
Pagina 210 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...
Pagina 230 - Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution, hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered.
Pagina 176 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pagina 240 - And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering with white lips — "The foe! They come! they come ! " And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering
Pagina 178 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Pagina 262 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Pagina 160 - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.