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 MindPublished and sold by David Hogan, 1809 - 230 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... fall , is held up by his friends ; but a poor man , being down , is thrust away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speaketh things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him ; the poor man slipt , and ...
... fall , is held up by his friends ; but a poor man , being down , is thrust away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speaketh things not to be spoken , and yet men justify him ; the poor man slipt , and ...
Pàgina 26
... falls in love with a woman of mer- it , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and aug- ment his passion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocks convinced him now , that what he felt for Calista , was love , and that of the ...
... falls in love with a woman of mer- it , time , far from weakening , will only strengthen and aug- ment his passion . 8. The fixed inclination of Agathocks convinced him now , that what he felt for Calista , was love , and that of the ...
Pàgina 32
... fall was seen through the woods that covered its sides . Below , it cir- cled round a tufted plain , and formed a little lake in front of a village , at the end of which appeared the spire of La Roche's church , rising above a clump of ...
... fall was seen through the woods that covered its sides . Below , it cir- cled round a tufted plain , and formed a little lake in front of a village , at the end of which appeared the spire of La Roche's church , rising above a clump of ...
Pàgina 70
... FALLS OF NIAGARA . A MONG the many natural curiosities which this country affords , the cataract of Niagara is infinitely the greatest . In order to have a tolerable idea of this stu- pendous fall of water , it will be necessary to ...
... FALLS OF NIAGARA . A MONG the many natural curiosities which this country affords , the cataract of Niagara is infinitely the greatest . In order to have a tolerable idea of this stu- pendous fall of water , it will be necessary to ...
Pàgina 71
... falls , the imagination is instantly arrested , and you admire in silence ! The river is about one hundred and thirty - five rods wide , at the falls , and the perpendicular pitch one hun.- dred and fifty feet . 5. The fail of this vast ...
... falls , the imagination is instantly arrested , and you admire in silence ! The river is about one hundred and thirty - five rods wide , at the falls , and the perpendicular pitch one hun.- dred and fifty feet . 5. The fail of this vast ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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!
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 169 - All sly, slow things, with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take ; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
Pàgina 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 !
Pàgina 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.