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 MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 pàgines |
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Pàgina 20
... gave them frequently the public prayers of the congregation for him . 2. The banker was not lefs dutiful on his part ; for , fo foon as he was fettled , he mounted on horfeback , and went alone to the village . It was ten at night ...
... gave them frequently the public prayers of the congregation for him . 2. The banker was not lefs dutiful on his part ; for , fo foon as he was fettled , he mounted on horfeback , and went alone to the village . It was ten at night ...
Pàgina 26
... gave him leave to hope . Nor did fhe put his conftancy to a tedious trial : the happiness for which he fighed was no longer delayed than was neceffary to prepare the ceremony . 11. The marriage fettlements were eafily regulated betwxit ...
... gave him leave to hope . Nor did fhe put his conftancy to a tedious trial : the happiness for which he fighed was no longer delayed than was neceffary to prepare the ceremony . 11. The marriage fettlements were eafily regulated betwxit ...
Pàgina 29
... gave way to her belief of its ufe to her father . The fick man was wrapped in blankets and carried across the street to the English gentleman's . The old woman helped the daughter to nurfe him there . The furgeon , who arrived foon ...
... gave way to her belief of its ufe to her father . The fick man was wrapped in blankets and carried across the street to the English gentleman's . The old woman helped the daughter to nurfe him there . The furgeon , who arrived foon ...
Pàgina 33
... gave a fign for stopping the Pfalmody , and rofe to prayer . He was difcompofed at firft , and his voice faltered as he fpoke ; but his heart was in his words , and its warmth overcame his embarraffment . He addreffed a Being whom he ...
... gave a fign for stopping the Pfalmody , and rofe to prayer . He was difcompofed at firft , and his voice faltered as he fpoke ; but his heart was in his words , and its warmth overcame his embarraffment . He addreffed a Being whom he ...
Pàgina 44
... gave the purfuers fo warm a reception as to oblige them , in turn , to retreat a little beyond the fpot at which the action had commenced . Here they made a ftand . 10. This change of ground occafioned the tree , to which Putn am was ...
... gave the purfuers fo warm a reception as to oblige them , in turn , to retreat a little beyond the fpot at which the action had commenced . Here they made a ftand . 10. This change of ground occafioned the tree , to which Putn am was ...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ... Noah Webster Visualització completa - 1805 |
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Passatges populars
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 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 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...
Pàgina 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
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 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Pàgina 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Pàgina 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Pàgina 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Pàgina 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...